HNswered: A Chrome Extension for Hacker News Reply Notifications
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dataviz1000
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Summary
HNswered is a Chrome side panel extension that notifies users when someone replies to their Hacker News posts and comments. It works by watching public HN stories and comments authored by the user, matching replies locally without requiring an HN login, server, or write access. The extension keeps an unread badge in the toolbar and surfaces direct replies in a local inbox.
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No HN login. No server. No write access. Just public HN data, matched locally.
One simple idea: every reply on HN points at its parent. HNswered remembers what you wrote and watches public comments for replies to those.
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