HN Companion is a software project built with browser-extension, hacker-news, ai-summaries, listed on Viber's Vault, a community directory of vibe-coded and AI-assisted software. It is available at github.com.
🗞️ HN Companion is an open-source browser extension that makes long Hacker News threads readable. Its AI summaries are tuned to HN's threaded structure — so they follow how a discussion actually branches instead of flattening 400 comments into a paragraph. It pairs that with Vim-style keyboard navigation for moving through threads without touching the mouse, and lets you bring your own AI provider: Ollama for fully local and private summarising, or OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI and OpenRouter…
Tags: browser-extension, hacker-news, ai-summaries, productivity, open-source, privacy, ollama, keyboard-navigation