HNewhere: Userscript adds HN discussion sidebar to any article
Original: Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
Why This Matters
Reflects growing developer interest in lightweight browser tools that reduce context-switching during research workflows.
Developer twalichiewicz released HNewhere, an open-source userscript that automatically detects Hacker News discussions for any article and displays them in a resizable sidebar, eliminating the need to open a second tab. Compatible with Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, and Userscripts.
HNewhere is a lightweight userscript published on GitHub by developer twalichiewicz, currently holding 63 stars and 3 forks. The tool addresses a common workflow friction for Hacker News readers: the need to open two separate tabs — one for the article and one for its HN comment thread.
Once installed via a userscript manager (Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, or Safari's Userscripts), HNewhere automatically detects when a visited page has a matching Hacker News story using the HN Algolia search API. It then loads the corresponding comments into a collapsible, resizable sidebar directly on the article page.
Key features include: automatic HN story detection, a resizable and collapsible sidebar, tracking of links opened from Hacker News, and reply links that open directly on HN. The project is released under the MIT license and requires only browser userscript support and access to the Hacker News API and Algolia search API.