I personally find the Hacker News Extension Suite [1] to be incredibly useful.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Looks great except that it needs access to your browsing history.
Does it? I can’t find anything in the code[0] (after 2 minutes) to suggest that. Not saying you’re wrong (I haven’t checked), but it doesn’t appear to access your history at all.[1]