Hacker News Shortcut

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Browse Hacker News with your keyboard!Version 1.7 details - 9/14/14
1, Kept up with HN changes - login link and "Next page" link on the first page

Version 1.6 details:
1, fixed bugs, improved stability
2, now fully support "Show HN" area
3, now fully support "Jobs" area
3, added the short key to go to "threads" area - <t>

7/6/2014

Version 1.5 details:
1, bug fix: messed-up layout of "Show HN" 1st page

Version 1.4 details:
1, bug fix: key press conflicts on textareas

Version 1.3 details:
1, bug fix: key press conflict on "comment" page


Introduction:
Hackercut is a Chrome extension that powers full keyboard navigation of Hacker News(https://news.ycombinator.com).

The source code and a better formatted instruction page of this extension is on GitHub: https://github.com/zinanxing/Hackercut

After installing the extension, while on Hacker News website, press "?" key to bring up the instructions.

Features:

1, Arrow Navigation
Arrow Navigation is the most powerful feature of this extension, you can go through the story links using just your up/right arrow keys and open/vote up/view author/view comments as you like.

Press "Tab" to turn on arrow navigation mode, you should see a green arrow to the left of the first link: arrow

You can move the arrow up and down using your arrow keys, then you may choose to:

ctrl(⌘)+enter open current link in new tab
v vote it up
a select its submitter(which you can then use ctrl+enter to open in new tab)
c select its comments
arrow

And pressing "esc" key will turn off Arrow Navigation mode.


2, Page Switching
Switching pages with Hackercut is just one key press away:

right arrow key next page
n "newest" page
m "comments" page*
k "ask" page
j "jobs" page*
s "submit" page
h Hacker News front page
l "login" page

*arrow navigation does not work on "comments" and "jobs" pages at this moment.


I hope you can better enjoy Hacker News with Hackercut.