Orange Juice browser extension
Ranked 21 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Adds small tweaks to Hacker News, such as keyboard navigation and dark mode, that people find more comfortable; critics call it overengineered.
Adds small tweaks to Hacker News, such as keyboard navigation and dark mode, that people find more comfortable; critics call it overengineered.
25 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 18
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 72%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 18 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Improves readability and usability
“finally there is someone noticing that the ux of hn needs to be improved”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “its a meaningful improvement to the existing site”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “this is sooooo much more comfortable”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” - Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read”
Nice and comfortable to use
“I use it and find it to be great, would love to see this in it!”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript” “Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “Installed it and it's quite nice!!!”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” Well-tested, open source codebase
“It isn't perfect, but this is not AI vibe slop, and there are lots of tests from day one.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments” “All in a well-tested and extensible codebase that has minimal impact on the site.”
Comment from 9 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)” “it is all open source and built by CI, including squeeze”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI” Keeps the spirit of the site
“I really like it and I think it's in the spirit of the site.”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “the extension simply adds features to the existing site”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Overengineered, heavy for its features
“it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” “why you didn't just have the ai generate a much simpler page”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read” - Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read”
Other browser extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other browser extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| SponsorBlock | 137 | 4 | 97% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers | 76 | 13 | 85% | 10 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| NoScript | 61 | 11 | 85% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| Orange Juice browser extensionThis page | 18 | 7 | 72% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
31 of the 35 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use it and find it to be great, would love to see this in it!”
“it flashes between "normal" and "upgraded" mode pretty starkly”
“this is sooooo much more comfortable”
“finally there is someone noticing that the ux of hn needs to be improved”
“Installed it and it's quite nice!!!”
“Lots of nice tweaks, but the most important is missing”
“pretty much all of this is not UX improvements, it's UX opinions”
“But this looks nice I'll probably check it out”
“Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!”
“There was no [OP] label when I first reloaded this page, and now after replying, I am marked as the [OP].”
“it's 'hide read stories' for me & darkmode”
“It's distracting for those who don't use hjkl so might be good to have it as an option.”
“You introduce unnecessary complexity.”
“Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow.”
“why you didn't just have the ai generate a much simpler page”
“If you use the keyboard navigation (keys: j/k), it really helps.”
“2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?”
“this orange border when clicking a comment or link on the front page is a bit annoying”
“the extension simply adds features to the existing site”
“Or you can just use my extension, heh.”
“Regardless it seems to work well, I replaced the older Refined Hacker News extension with this”
“it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code”
“That does not convince me to use your app?”
“I can't figure out how to toggle to Light Mode (maybe it uses the system setting?)”
“its a meaningful improvement to the existing site”
“I really like it and I think it's in the spirit of the site.”
“these are features I'd welcome”
“This is helpful! Thank you”
“it is all open source and built by CI, including squeeze”
“All in a well-tested and extensible codebase that has minimal impact on the site.”
“It isn't perfect, but this is not AI vibe slop, and there are lots of tests from day one.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.