hckrnews Review

The clean layout makes scanning for and reading stories a lot easier.

Depending on how much time you want to spend on HN, you can tailor the ranking algorithms to suit.

Hckr news is designed to ensure you see all the most important stories without having to constantly scan the pages for changes. It preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so there is no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted

Really handy for temporarily getting rid of conversation threads that don't interest you.

Easily see if there have been new comments since you last checked.