Split for Hacker News FAQ

It finds Hacker News submissions that link to the public article you are reading. You can open a selected discussion in Chrome’s side panel or in a reusable adjacent tab.

The public release supports Google Chrome 140 or newer. Other browser packages may exist in the source repository, but they are not offered here as supported public releases.

After you request a lookup, the extension sanitizes eligible public article URL candidates and searches Algolia’s public Hacker News index. It verifies exact URL identity locally instead of guessing from an article title.

The article may not have been submitted, or its Hacker News submission may point to a different canonical URL, mirror, or edition. Exact matching intentionally avoids unrelated title-based results.

Only public HTTP and HTTPS article URLs are eligible. Local or private addresses, special-use hostnames, URLs with embedded credentials, and URLs whose query string appears to contain a secret are rejected before any search request.

No article text is read. There is no telemetry, advertising, account, or developer backend. Eligible sanitized URL candidates go to Algolia only for a requested lookup or the optional automatic badge feature.

The panel embeds the real Hacker News site. While the panel is open, the extension temporarily removes Hacker News framing headers from Hacker News sub-frame responses; the rule is removed when the panel closes.

No. Split for Hacker News is an independent open-source project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator or Hacker News.