| ▲ | latchkey 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refined hasn't received an update in 4 years. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/135... I used refined for years as well. Great product, but the underlying code was meh, and the author abandoned it. If you're using refined today, you're experiencing a lot of bugs as the HN DOM has changed over time. I maintained my own fork for a long time but finally motivated myself to try out AI assisted coding and this is what came out of it. It isn't a port, it is a clean rewrite from the ground up. I took every feature that I enjoyed from refined, re-implemented it from scratch, with a totally different architecture that allows much more control over the DOM and runs a whole lot faster. I had AI write hundreds of of unit tests, so that we can make sure that bugs don't appear in the future. I also fixed a whole ton of edge cases along the way. The entire deployment, all the way to the browser stores, is fully automated with CI/CD, so that we know that the supply chain is safe. In other words, you might as well migrate. If there is something missing that you enjoyed, file an issue, or even better... a PR. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | smcleod an hour ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I tried contacting the author to see if he would open source it but he's gone dark and doesn't seem to really exist on the Internet anymore. So I grabbed the source code and modernised it, added additional feature and it's what I've been using ever since. I haven't open sourced it out of respect for the original author however the software does not actually have any license that prevents it so I have been considering what the best approach might be (any ideas?). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Leftium an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I just tried switching from a slightly more updated fork of Refined Hacker News (2025)[1] One thing I miss is the orange mark identifying the OP of a post. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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