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Show HN: Humble-HN, hide Hacker News number of votes, comments, and karma (github.com/alexmolas)
31 points by alexmolas 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
humble-hn is a Chrome extension that hides the number of votes and comments of stories, and the karma of users on Hacker News. The objective of this extension is to remove the influence of these numbers on the perception of the content.



Interesting idea, but I don't always have much time to scroll HN and I use comment number as a proxy for being worth spending a few minutes reading people's takes. I mostly use it on my phone anyway.

I wonder how many would consistently use this?


Interesting to think about what "Dang"'s view is of HN, seeing HN with "dang" goggles must be like an on screen 'heads-up display' of comments and posts with all kind of other annotations useful to moderation, probably neatly colorized.


Yeah I am imagining a command line tool, such is the bulk he would need to deal with. The speed that would give you, plus the ability to pipe into grep/sed etc. would be very useful.


Ha interesting I didn’t think about that. I thought it would be like an augmented or annotated regular web interface so like instead of just a little links and info that we see next to comments and posts and users like there’s a whole bunch of other tooling and information surfaced. “HN Admin view”


Interesting idea and thanks for being open about that:

"How did I develop this?

I'm a data scientist with no knowledge of JavaScript or Web Development. I understand JavaScript code, but I can't write it from scratch and I don't know the best practices. To develop this extension I've used Cursor together with OpenAI API and Claude API. In total, I've paid less than 1 dollar (and it's probably to make it cheaper if you know a little bit of JavaScript, but I had to ask like a trillion clarifying questions). I want to be 100% transparent with that and I don't want to give the impression that I'm a JavaScript developer.

With these tools, it's been incredibly easy to develop this extension. However, I'm aware that the code maybe doesn't follow best practices, and I'm not sure how easy is to extend the current codebase to cover extra functionalities. I'm open to suggestions and contributions."


It looks like an interesting tool.




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