Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

Imustaskforhelp

I use refined Hacker news Extension. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights It might be beneficial to tell me what the difference between these two can be? A lot of the features from my first glance (I can be totally wrong though) are within HN refined. I would really appreciate a short summary of differences. Personally I am really happy by HN refined though so kudos to @plibither8

lagniappe

>AI-assisted, not AI-slop >AI is used as a pair programmer to speed up implementation and review, but architecture and final decisions are human. Tested, not vibe coded >The extension has extensive unit test coverage, quality checks, and automation through CI/CD. This project is intentionally not vibe coded. I felt non-specific mixed feeling reading this. Seemed unnecessary to say that so prominently twice. Be confident. If you do a good job it shows in more ways than the code.

Isolated_Routes

This is helpful! Thank you

cobbman

I want hacker news UX to stay as it is, mostly, but these are features I'd welcome.

maxloh

I built a Stylus theme to make Hacker News' UI more modern. Some screenshots: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news... Repo: https://github.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news

altairprime

Latchkey, would you be comfortable with HN adopting your dark mode styling as a user choice someday, if they came around to liking it? I really like it and I think it’s in the spirit of the site.

Novosell

Did you ai generate the Chrome and Firefox logo? That isn't what they look like, or have ever looked like, from what I know.

ipsum2

It looks pretty good! I'm using it now and its a meaningful improvement to the existing site. Out of curiosity, why did you make a new Github account for the extension instead of developing it on your own account?

xydac

its funny how us developers build varied UX, but nothing beats the simplicity of HN's default experience. quick and bloat free.

greenpizza13

I can't figure out how to toggle to Light Mode (maybe it uses the system setting?). HN is something I prefer to be in Light Mode but everything else in dark. Gonna remove until this is configurable.

Klonoar

What on earth is that Firefox logo...?

ramon156

> Why Install Orange Juice? > Because Hacker News is great, but repetitive UI friction adds up. Orange Juice keeps the original feel while removing the things that cost you time every day. That does not convince me to use your app? This is like calling someone's Kia shit and instead telling them to buy a Tesla, but just stating that it's better. I'll stick to HN, thanks.

wesz

The improvements are nice, that's for sure. But i checked out github and it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code. But again, nobody cares nowadays which makes me sad. You even generated chrome/firefox logos using ai...

satvikpendem

"Tested, not vibe coded" yet you mention the AI has written all the tests. This extension may not be vibe coded but it's close to that, it seems. Regardless it seems to work well, I replaced the older Refined Hacker News extension with this, which seems like where you initially sourced the code from as the features are very similar, 1:1 even for some. I also use this extension HNRelevant ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnrelevant ) which shows a list of similar posts, you might want to add that as an optional feature as well. What's the tech stack, pure TS? You also might want to migrate from Biome to oxc, I did recently and it plays well with Vite+ (or just move to Vite+) directly. Noticed a bug, once I edit my own comment and go back to the main post, I show up as [op] not you. Also I should be able to edit my post inline not be moved to a separate page.

odysseus

How about a Safari/Mobile Safari extension so iPhone users can use it?

librasteve

dang. just shedding feedbin & reeder (paid) it's 'hide read stories' for me & darkmode

gitgud

Another feature idea for you: There’s an extension that I loved called “Proven” (now archived) which uses keybase.io proofs to show other proven accounts next to hn users https://github.com/dschep/proven Also about this: > Mermaid Diagram Rendering Honest question, how often are people posting raw mermaid diagrams in comments here?… I’ve never seen one

darepublic

I would like to see users clustered by their political and programming axes of belief

redlewel

Not bad I do like the transparency on AI usage. So many projects omit this completely and its difficult not to assume someone just claude coded it in an evening to farm clicks. But this looks nice I'll probably check it out

mhitza

Pretty cool. This is the glitchy userscript I use on Firefox mobile[1] (with screenshot) to make tap targets bigger and move navigation at the bottom of the page + collapsed. [1] https://gist.github.com/mhitza/0956d7e2c11d3102cbd4cba7f6d06...