A theme and extension for Hacker News that improves the look and feel and adds some interesting features.
The available features can be enabled or disabled based on your personal preference. New feature contributions are welcome!
You can install this extension from the Chrome Web Store.
- A modern looking visual theme DONE
- Infinite scrolling DONE
- Open links in new tab DONE
- More accurate domain names DONE
- Hide articles with certain keywords (maybe)
- Mark all as read (maybe)
The CSS is built using Stylus. If you'd like to contribute, you should first install Node, and then get stylus:
npm install -g stylus
You can then tell Stylus to watch the changes to the .styl file and compile automatically:
stylus -c -w hn_theme.styl
Some of the selectors in the CSS are very contrived. I found it was the only way to select what I wanted in a document made of tables within tables with barely any classes. I tried to use class selectors wherever I could, but it's mostly unavoidable to go down a long chain of selectors. If you spot any ways to improve any of the selectors, please make a pull request and I'll be glad to take it in!
If you want to add a new module, please edit defaults.json and add a descriptive key for your module (it will be used as the actual module name in the settings panel). Please keep it disabled by default if it's a change that could overwhelm some users. When the first new module will be published, some code will be added to notify users about the update through the settings menu.
For the actual code, make a JavaScript file with the same name as the module, and subscribe to the settings object through the module's key (take a look at open_links_in_new_tabs.js for an example). If the setting is enabled from the interface, your module's code will be executed. NOTE: don't forget to add your JS file to manifest.json and uninstall/reinstall the extension before you begin developing. Simply reloading it won't work.
HN Special is licensed under the MIT License:
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Copyright (c) 2013 Gabriele Cirulli
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