Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Hacker News Top Tools

Summary

A userscript that merges Hacker News article and discussion into one view, with a side panel for comments and automatic detection of previously shared articles.

HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth.<p>I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two.<p>1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn&#x27;t require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it.<p>2. If you land on an article that has previously been shared on HN, the script finds the existing discussion and adds a button in the top-right to open the panel.<p>Feedback welcome.
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