GitHub - adam-s/HNswered: Notifies you when someone replies to your Hacker News posts and comments.

HNswered is a small Chrome side panel for Hacker News replies. Set your HN username once. HNswered watches the public stories and comments you have authored, surfaces direct replies in a local inbox, and keeps an unread badge in the toolbar. No HN login. No server. No write access. Just public HN data, matched locally.

hnswered-demo-1.5x.mp4

What It Does

Finds replies to your HN stories and comments, even when the original comment is deep in a thread. Shows a clean side-panel inbox with unread/read filters. Lets you refresh on demand after posting something new. Catches up after Chrome has been asleep or closed. Keeps state local in Chrome storage.

How It Works One simple idea: every reply on HN points at its parent. HNswered remembers what you wrote and watches public comments for replies to those.

flowchart LR A["your HN username"] --> B["items you wrote"] C["public HN comments"] --> D{"reply to<br/>one of yours?"} B -.-> D D -- yes --> E["your inbox"] D -- no --> F["ignore"]

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That's it. No login, no server, no backend you have to trust. Install The repo ships a pre-built dist/. No Node or build step is required.

Security A self-contained security audit prompt is available at docs/security-audit.md. For Contributors Build from source (only needed if you change code — the repo ships a pre-built dist/): pnpm install pnpm build pnpm test && pnpm type-check && pnpm harness:replay Architecture notes, matching-strategy validation, and the local research harnesses live in cost-analysis/docs/.