Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
A new lightweight userscript called HNewhere adds Hacker News discussions to any article page. It automatically detects matching Hacker News stories and displays comments in a resizable sidebar. The script can be installed via popular userscript managers such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey.
- ▪HNewhere detects Hacker News stories and loads comments into a sidebar without leaving the page.
- ▪The sidebar is resizable, collapsible, and preserves its width across sessions.
- ▪Reply links open directly to the original Hacker News thread.
- ▪Installation requires a browser with userscript support and uses the Hacker News API and Algolia search API.
Hacker News (Front Page) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 726 of its stories. Top-voted stories on Hacker News.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:09:06 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T22:36:01.639Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T22:36:01.639Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 4u2Wafq2h9hs · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
HNewhere A lightweight userscript that adds Hacker News discussions to any article. HNewhere detects Hacker News stories, loads comments into a sidebar, and lets you browse discussions without leaving the page. Features Opens HN discussions beside articles Automatically detects matching Hacker News stories Tracks links opened from Hacker News Resizable sidebar Collapsible comments Preserves sidebar width Reply links open directly to HN Install Install a userscript manager: Userscripts (Safari) Tampermonkey Violentmonkey Install or paste HNewhere.js Visit an article with a Hacker News discussion. Requirements Browser with userscript support Access to: Hacker News API HN Algolia search API License MIT
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.