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Show HN: HNRelevant - Add a "related" section to Hacker News
It's been 2 years since the initial release
[here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial
version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere
beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or
load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but
better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using
comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right
keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox
(including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support
for narrow screens and mobile devices. - Added preference
controls. You're here because you love interesting HN discussions
but they're often buried away like hidden gems, so give it a try
and let me know what you think.
Author : imadj
Score : 108 points
Date : 2025-05-24 01:07 UTC (21 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| somebehemoth wrote:
| This is neat. Seems to work on Orion iOS using the firefox
| extension. Great job.
| imadj wrote:
| Awesome to hear. Thank you for giving it a try.
| drsh0 wrote:
| Installed and loving it! Super off topic but do you remember what
| font you used in the extension cover image (e.g on the chrome
| extension page)? I wasn't able to identify it elsewhere and it
| seems right up my alley.
| imadj wrote:
| Glad to hear you're enjoying it.
|
| I think I know why it was hard to identify the font. I used
| two:
|
| The larger text (Orange) is 'Space Grotesk':
| https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Grotesk
|
| The smaller text in black is 'Roc Grotesk'
| insin wrote:
| Nice work, I love extensions which feel like natural... well,
| extensions of the target site.
| RugnirViking wrote:
| sounds like fun. Perhaps a little too much fun. This sort of
| algorithmic thing keeps people on social media all day. So be
| aware folks this can only lose you time working.
|
| (no shade to you, OP. Seems like a cool idea, great that it
| exists. Just that if there were the option to turn this off on
| most social media I would probably take it)
| imadj wrote:
| It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds
| when it's fundamentally different.
|
| > if there were the option to turn this off on most social
| media I would probably take it
|
| This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search
| field by default and then you get to fetch results at your
| command. Very much like an embedded search engine.
|
| Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you
| come across on goodreads. It only shows when you visit a
| discussion you're interested in. The nature of this website by
| itself is quite different from other social media.
|
| But I understand where you're coming from and appreciate you
| raising awareness.
| mfkhalil wrote:
| This is cool. Love how well it fits in with the site. Will
| probably keep it on.
| dan_voronov wrote:
| Big plus for supporting Firefox!
|
| There is a compatibility issue with the "Modern for Hacker News.
| A redesigned web interface for Hacker News." browser extension (I
| use Firefox). If it is active, I do not see the block with
| related news.
|
| Can this be fixed?
| imadj wrote:
| Interesting. It's ~likely possible.~
|
| I need to investigate what kind of mutations the other
| extension is doing to HN interface and figure out a way to be
| compatible with it on top of the native one.
|
| I opened a GitHub issue if you're interested in following the
| status there: https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant/issues/24
|
| UPDATE: Based on initial look it seems that the 'Modern for
| Hacker News' extension completely restructures the DOM and uses
| its own class names. If someone have suggestions to be
| compatible with different designs, I'm down to do it.
| cAtte_ wrote:
| yep, as a user of Modern for HN i always wondered why they
| decided to implement it like this; it's not like it adds any
| crazy features (it's mostly aesthetic). as a result i'm
| unable to use other great extensions like this one along with
| it :(
| fvlasveld wrote:
| I'm using Modern for Hacker News on Vivaldi (Chrome) and would
| be interested in this, too.
| smusamashah wrote:
| Thank you very much for providing it as a userscript. Most of the
| extensions can be just that. A simple user editable script.
| MrCoffee7 wrote:
| It is not working for me on Chrome, even though I have the "Auto
| Pilot" option set on. What do I need to do to get it to work?
| imadj wrote:
| It shouldn't need anything other than the permissions requested
| on install.
|
| - Visit a submission page like this Show HN.
|
| - Check permissions for the extension. Maybe they were skipped
| on installation somehow.
|
| - Are you using other extensions for HN? they might obstruct
| this extension from integrating with the site.
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| I missed this the first time around, that is awesome. A lot of
| posts here really interest me but a lot do not, this is a great
| way of hopping between the former. Incidentally, I did something
| similar for blogs.
| anjel wrote:
| This is excellent. Is there a way to filter out low comments dupe
| posts?
| imadj wrote:
| This is a nice feature will add it next in the coming few days.
| imadj wrote:
| I implemented this and pushed a new release v1.3.0. It should
| be live on all browser stores within few days.
| nichol4s wrote:
| This is useful - thank you. I'll try to see if I can make this
| into a Webfuse extension.
|
| Edit: that was actually pretty easy you can see it here:
| https://webfu.se/+hn/
| swyx wrote:
| can we use this thread to share other useful HN tooling?
|
| mine is here: https://github.com/swyxio/hnx
|
| - displays the latest links from Y Combinator's Hacker News
|
| - Offers a link for submitting the url of the current tab.
|
| - shows previous results when submitting in case someone recently
| submitted
| quantadev wrote:
| Thought Experiment: Imagine if we had a true "Perma-Web" where
| something like IPFS was keeping a permanent record of every web
| page. Then we could have a "Semantic Web" where each webpage maps
| to a single point (it's Vector Embedding) in higher dimensional
| space.
|
| This would mean you could do things like:
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| 1) Write a blog post, and then find all other blog posts that
| were the 'closest to yours' that was ever written.
|
| 2) Do basic "Search" in a way that's probably more powerful than
| even the Google Page-Rank Algo, by being able to look up every
| web page that exists based on a Cosine Similarity.
|
| It's a shame Web3 didn't really ever "go viral" in a big way, or
| else we'd be able to do this stuff right now.
| never_inline wrote:
| Cosine similarity alone can't give you good results. For
| example, if you want to search specific names or acronyms,
| cosine similarity won't help much.
|
| People act like embeddings are all you need for search.
|
| Curse of dimensionality also means what you think is the most
| similar is not necessarily the most similar thing in vector
| space. See the last Hn discussion on word embeddings for some
| examples.
| quantadev wrote:
| I'm not claiming Cosine Similarity can do things it can't do.
| I'm claiming it's useful to find related pages, in a very
| powerful way, and I'm correct.
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| Not the exact implementation you suggest, but similar:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797896
|
| The idea is to then allow bloggers to link relevant posts so
| readers can easily traverse the web.
| quantadev wrote:
| Lots of cool information there that's right in my wheelhouse,
| that I'll be going thru. thanks!
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