Tell HN: a Google Chrome extension which highlights hot links on HN
madk.org
madk.org
The hotness calculation seems to be pretty basic, just grabbing the points / comments numbers on the page and comparing them to each other. Which is actually exactly what I want, I'm not really interested in something which tells me exactly what HN's sorting equation tells me, and more complex == harder to understand the results.
Found a bug, btw: upvoting gives me NaN instead of a number for points.
suggestion: maintain a local cache of usernames I frequently upvote/downvote/ reply to/whose links I click. Special highlight for threads in which I have already commented or in which my top X posters are participants.
Also noticed that it doesn't differentiate between positive and negative scores. A score of -4 is hotter than a score of 1.