HNewhere - Lightweight userscript for inline Hacker News discussions
Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
HNewhere is a lightweight userscript that seamlessly integrates Hacker News discussions directly into any article page. By automatically detecting relevant HN stories, it loads comments into a customizable, resizable sidebar, eliminating the need to open multiple tabs. This tool enhances the reading experience by allowing users to browse community insights and reply links without ever leaving the original content. Compatible with popular managers like Tampermonkey and Violentmonkey, HNewhere leverages the Hacker News API and Algolia search to deliver a streamlined, efficient workflow for tech enthusiasts and developers.
HNewhere detects Hacker News stories, loads comments into a sidebar, and lets you browse discussions without leaving the page.
- kccqzy
Feature 2 is really useful. When I land on a technical article I know chances are there will be a nice HN discussion, that may sometimes even refute the main point of the article.
Feature 1 is IMO less useful. It just suggests that people are bad at window management. We didn't like overlapping windows and finding them, so we created tabs inside windows. Then we wanted to see two things at the same time, so we created split views inside tabs (Chrome and Firefox both had this). With a good window manager neither would be necessary. Sadly the community prefers to solve this at the application level rather than the desktop level; I'm currently using Forge (https://github.com/forge-ext/forge) but sadly it's becoming unmaintained.
- perpil
This is slick. 2 things.
1. If you name your script with the extension .user.js it is easier to click on to automatically install at least with tampermonkey.
2. When I went to this link from the main page, on mobile I had to scroll to the right to see the (-) to minimize because the sidebar was too large: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-nee... It may make some sense to start minimized so I can read the article first, but I can easily modify the script to do that.
- pluc
Firefox has a new Split View that's useful for this, but you still have to left click and select open in split view (M) then click the link. You also used to be able on some browsers to craft a link that was href="tab1.html|tab2.html", no idea if that's still a thing or if it was limited to "home page" setting.
- est
This is how reddit supposed to be. A universal comment box for del.icio.us
- abudooboo
Have you considered modifying it to trigger on every HNews click as well as with as manually triggered? As it is now it leaks browser URLs + query string + fragments to hn.algolia.com since it queries it on every single page you visit. At the very least it might be good to sanitize the queries by restricting to origin + path?