A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience

My favorite FOSS Android HN client is Materialistic- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hidroh&#x2F;materialistic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hidroh&#x2F;materialistic</a><p>Available on f-droid- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;io.github.hidroh.materialistic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;io.github.hidroh.materialist...</a>

I would love to see something to exclude or ignore some patterns in titles or links.<p>I browse HN every day to read good tech posts and comments but I&#x27;m a very anxious person (especially these days of course) and seeing articles about death, cancers and other things make me start the day quite badly.<p>I know this is not a solution to ignore this, I should fight it, but I would gladly like to see (sub-)categories or tags on HN to browse wisely what I&#x27;m interesting in.

I would like a sentiment analysis of the comments posted beside each article link. A kind of temperature reading. So you can guage if the comments are generally positive or negative and use that as a proxy for whether the article is considered valuable enough to click on.<p>It&#x27;s not perfect as conversations evolve away from the articles. But it would be useful I think.

I use an android client for HN, but the _only_ feature I actually want is for the collapse and vote buttons to be big enough for human fingers on mobile. Being able to unvote helps, but one of the only reasons I ever need to unvote is because the vote buttons are microscopic.

Use SQL to query Hacker News with Steampipe - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.steampipe.io&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;turbot&#x2F;hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.steampipe.io&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;turbot&#x2F;hackernews</a><p>It&#x27;s an open source Postgres FDW using Go - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;turbot&#x2F;steampipe-plugin-hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;turbot&#x2F;steampipe-plugin-hackernews</a>

I am fan of some niche technologies, I would love the functionality of “white list”, which would show “new stories” on the main page if new story contains some specific keyword from predefined set (ideally not only in title but also in content of linked page)

Lack of a license does not make code FOSS by default.

I would like to be able mark off all the stories I read or am not interested in so at the next visits I can quickly scan whether there&#x27;s any change. I know I could use the &#x27;hide&#x27; for stories but I&#x27;d still have to scan a list of 30 (older) stories so that won&#x27;t work so basically zero inbox isn&#x27;t working out for me. Also I like seeing the how the rank changes for the top 30 stories, I just want to visually be able to know I checked that off.

also chrome extension to toggle only showing comments that contain links: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-news-show-links&#x2F;phckhodapplnokiepnaneoglleghgpfi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-news-show-l...</a>

Is there anything that gives a &quot;parent&quot; button to comments? Like a tampermonkey script or something?<p>Whenever there&#x27;s a deep tree, I sometimes find it hard to know what comment people are replying to. A better visual indicator of the depth of the comments would be nice as well.

Will one of these make grayed out comments easier to read? I often find it very hard to read those even when I intend to, which I feel like is a design flaw. It would be better if there was a toggle button to let me read a specific comment with normal coloring.

I have an idea for a HN add on that I don’t have time to make yet.<p>I’d like to make a ‘social media’ version of HN that notifies you every time anyone upvotes your comment or post and generally bugs you in all the ways social media normally does. Just to see what it would be like.

I&#x27;m a big fan of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hckrnews.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hckrnews.com</a>