Hacker News New Tab

I frequently visit Hacker News alongside Reddit for seeing tech news and wasting time. Reddit has a nice feature in which you can set it to open all links to comment threads and external sites in a new tab, which I personally prefer. Yet I haven’t found this feature on Hacker News, So using TamperMonkey I decided to build it myself.

You can install this if you have Tampermonkey (Chrome) or theoretically but untested GreaseMonkey (Firefox) from Greasy Fork, or add the code below to your Userscript Extension:

// ==UserScript== // @name HN New Tab // @namespace https://news.ycombinator.com/ // @version 0.1 // @description Makes all links to posts and users open in a new tab // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* // @grant none // @copyright 2014+, Ry167 // ==/UserScript== (function(){ var elems = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); var i = 0; for (i=0;i<elems.length;i++){ var elem = elems[i]; if (elem.id == "" && elem.parentNode.className != "pagetop" && elem.parentNode.parentNode.className != "pagetop" && elem.parentNode.className != "yclinks" && elem.innerText != "More" && elem.innerText != "link" && elem.innerText != "reply"){ elem.setAttribute("target","_blank"); } }; })();