Hacker Whos

Working

Chrome extension that hides Hacker News usernames to reduce bias

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Open Hacker WhosSite checked 2 days ago

What stands out

Taken from the page and the access facts we recorded. Nothing here is guessed.

browse HN without usernames
reduce author bias while reading
No account required
Free

What we checked

A missing tick means we have not measured it. A red mark is a check that failed.

App accessible
The project site answered. That is not the installed tool running.
Page rendered
No browser probe yet. An HTTP 200 is not this check.
Screenshot kept
We captured a picture of the page.

Looked: 0
Opened: 1
Checks: 1
Watching: 0

Looked and opened count distinct browsers on this site, not verified people. Checks are requests we made. None of these come from the app itself.

Screenshot of Hacker Whos — Screenshot from our last capture

Evidence

Each bar is one request to the project's own site

This one is installed and run on your own machine, so what we re-check is the project’s site — whether it is still published and still reachable. We cannot tell you from here that the tool itself runs.

Checks: 1
Working: 100%
Median response: 210ms
Watching since: 2 days ago

Activity

Watching since 2 days ago

Last content change: None seen yet
Unchanged for: 2 days
Certificate expires: in 28 days

We hash the visible text on every check, so a redesign registers and a rotating advert does not. An app that has not changed in a long time is not necessarily abandoned — but it is a fact worth knowing before you depend on it.

What it does

Hacker Whos is a Chrome extension that replaces usernames on Hacker News with question marks so attention stays on the comments. The page explains the goal as reducing competition and bias while browsing. A Chrome install link is provided; it also notes you can hide names with an ad blocker instead.

What people say

No reviews yet.

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Embed this status

Put it in your README. It updates itself every time we check, and links to your verification record — evidence a stranger can read, not a page selling them something.

[![Hacker Whos — still works](https://itstillworks.cruscible.com/api/badge/hacker-whos)](https://itstillworks.cruscible.com/verify/hacker-whos)

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