I tried contacting the author to see if he would open source it but he's gone dark and doesn't seem to really exist on the Internet anymore. So I grabbed the source code and modernised it, added additional feature and it's what I've been using ever since. I haven't open sourced it out of respect for the original author however the software does not actually have any license that prevents it so I have been considering what the best approach might be (any ideas?).
replyAre you referring to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news?
replyIt's MIT-licensed open source.
I've been using a fork (also MIT): https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news
Just use my extension?
replyI just tried switching from a slightly more updated fork of Refined Hacker News (2025)[1]
replyOne thing I miss is the orange mark identifying the OP of a post.
I have that in there.
replyhttps://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84...
Ah, I see it must be the bug mentioned in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695328
replyThere was no [OP] label when I first reloaded this page, and now after replying, I am marked as the [OP].
edit: it seems the [OP] relies on a URL hash with the ID of the OP. However, this doesn't work for me because I don't navigate to HN posts from the HN site.
I usually come from https://hn.leftium.com. (Or a page like https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/47694036)
I'm so confused. Can you explain it to me a bit more clearly what you'd like to see? I literally just took the code from refined.
replyhttps://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/ee7ef...
I opened an issue with screenshots: https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/issues/1...
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