Hacker News Search Toolkit (Unofficial)

Unofficial. Compose Hacker News (Algolia) search URLs with points, comments, author, and date filters.

Hacker News Search Toolkit (Unofficial) is a Chrome extension that helps you compose, save, and launch Hacker News search URLs from a side panel — without scraping, automation, or API calls. The extension only generates URLs and opens them in your existing browser session. ═══ What it does ═══ A guided builder for the Algolia-powered Hacker News search (hn.algolia.com): author scope, time-range bounds, story-vs-comment scoping, and points / comments thresholds. Plus built-in templates for Show HN, Ask HN, and high-engagement-comment hunting. A live URL preview updates as you compose, and every search can be saved to your local library for one-click re-use. Note: generated URLs target hn.algolia.com (the Algolia HN search), not news.ycombinator.com. ═══ Use cases ═══ • Show HN — past week, 100+ points: filter type=story tag=show_hn with `points>100` and a 7-day window — your weekly launch round-up. • Ask HN — high-engagement threads: type=story tag=ask_hn sorted by number of comments — surface the conversations worth reading. • Author scope: author=<username> sorted by date — track a specific commenter's or submitter's recent activity. • Comments hunting on a topic: type=comment <keyword> with a points threshold — find substantive replies, not headlines. • Date-bound retrospective: <keyword> with `created_at_i>` and `created_at_i<` bounds for a specific time window. ═══ What it does NOT do ═══ • No background scraping. No content scripts running on page load. No scheduled fetches. • No automation. No clicks, no API calls, no scraping of hn.algolia.com or news.ycombinator.com. • No data leaves your device. Saved searches and settings live in chrome.storage.local. The Export JSON feature writes to a file on your disk; nothing is sent over the network. ═══ Permissions used and why ═══ • storage: Persist user-defined saved searches, tags, and settings locally. • sidePanel: Render the UI as a Chrome side panel so you can keep the Builder open while browsing. ═══ Privacy ═══ Full privacy policy: https://gvensan.github.io/social-chrome-plugins-home/privacy/hackernews.html The extension declares no host permissions and runs no content scripts. It makes no network requests other than navigating tabs to URLs you explicitly composed. ═══ Source & support ═══ Source code: https://github.com/gvensan/social-chrome-plugins Support: https://github.com/gvensan/social-chrome-plugins-home/issues Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Y Combinator.