HN Skins – Read Hacker News in Style
HN Skins is a userscript that allows users to customize the appearance of Hacker News. To use it, a userscript manager like Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey must be installed first. The software is free and open source, available under the MIT License.
- ▪HN Skins adds custom themes to Hacker News.
- ▪Users must install a userscript manager to use HN Skins.
- ▪The software is free and open source under the MIT License.
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,306 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Codeberg.org |
| Canonical URL | https://codeberg.org/susam/hnskins |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 11:53:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T12:07:36.708Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T12:07:40.350Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | NeT62SINd0zv |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
HN Skins Read Hacker News in style! HN Skins is a browser userscript that adds custom themes to Hacker News (HN). Install Now Note: To use the HN Skins userscript, you must first install a userscript manager such as Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey into your web browser and then click the install link above. Select Skin After you install HN Skins, visit news.ycombinator.com. A new link called 'skins' appears in the top navigation panel. Click the 'skins' link and select a skin of your choice. Screenshots This section presents a few screenshots of the various skins available. Cafe Courier London Midnight Terminal Licence This is free and open source software.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Codeberg.org.