Feeds

• Timeline Stories grouped by the day, week, or month they reached the front page. Rank by upvotes or comments, keep the top 10 to 200, and see similar submissions grouped under one story.
• Aggregate The top stories of the past day, 3 days, week, month, or year, or any date range.
• Frontpage The current Hacker News front page, with your filters applied.
• Best of Hacker News’s best recent comments, grouped by thread.
• RSS Atom and JSON feeds that follow your story filters. Build a feed

Filters

• Quick filters Show or hide Small Web, Show HN, Ask HN, Tell HN, Vintage, and AI stories with one click. Small Web uses Kagi’s list of personal sites; Vintage finds links with a year in the title.
• Format Show only links, self posts, PDFs, or videos.
• Keywords Include or exclude words in titles. ai matches anywhere, even inside “email”; "ai" matches only the whole word.
• Sites and authors Require or block specific domains and submitters.
• Minimums Hide stories below a vote or comment count.
• Story cooldown Hold new Timeline stories for a few hours while discussion develops. Stories with 100+ points or 50+ comments appear right away.
• Unread only Hide stories you have already seen.

Comments

• Beside the feed On desktop, discussions open in a drawer next to the feed. Dock it left or right, center it, or go full screen.
• Sort and filter Sort by newest or by the commenters’ average karma. Hide low-karma or specific commenters, or show only comments posted since your last visit.
• Long threads Sticky parent comments, thread lines, a minimap, and comment text size and spacing of their own.
• Keyboard j/k moves between comments, h/l between replies at the same level, and n/p opens the next or previous story’s comments.
• Profiles Click a username to see karma, average karma, account age, and bio.
• HN links Links to other Hacker News threads open here, not on news.ycombinator.com.

Reading

• Themes Follow your system’s light or dark mode with a palette for each, or pick one: Light, Manila, Hacker News Classic, Dark, Midnight, Ayu Light, Ayu Mirage, Bloomberg, Catppuccin Latte, Catppuccin Mocha, Dracula, GitHub Dark, GitHub Light, Gruvbox Dark, Gruvbox Light, Material Dark, Monokai Pro, Night Owl, Nord, One Dark, Rosé Pine, Rosé Pine Dawn, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light, Tokyo Night
• Layout Classic or Hckr story style (after hckrnews.com), multiple columns, adjustable text size and spacing, and your choice of which story details appear. Reset Appearance to restore these options to their defaults.
• Fonts Pick a reading font: Classic (Verdana), Inter, IBM Plex Sans, Source Serif, Merriweather, Lora, Charter, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next
• Unread markers New stories and new comments since your last visit stand out.
• Search Search stories and comments by title, text, URL, or author over any time range. Results have shareable links, and recent searches keep their options.

More

• Install Add hcker.news to your home screen or dock. It reopens where you left off, and on phones you can pull down to refresh.
• Reply notifications Get notified when someone replies to your Hacker News posts.
• Browser extension Vote and comment with your Hacker News account, on Chrome or Firefox. Read more
• Slop reports Flag stories and comments you think are low-effort, AI-generated content. How it works
• Shareable views Views, filters, and searches live in the URL, so any setup can be bookmarked or shared.
• Open all Open every story in a group in new tabs at once.
• Shortcuts Press ? to see every keyboard shortcut.

Recently added

• 2026-09-07 Sort comments by their authors’ average karma.
• 2026-09-07 Added a Tell HN quick filter.
• 2026-08-25 You can report stories and comments you think are Slop for review. Read more
• 2026-07-28 Comment spacing can now be adjusted in Appearance settings.
• 2026-07-28 Atkinson Hyperlegible Next is available as a reading font in Appearance settings.

Full changelog