Save yourself a copy'n'paste:

Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hapackcnjagkljgfjl...

Source: https://github.com/ImFatYoureFat/follow_hackers

Biggest problem with Chrome plugins for HN is they clash with existing ones (from my experience) eg http://hckrnews.com/about.html

Nice extension!

This is completely off topic, but Chrome store URLs are just horrible. hapackcnjagkljgfjlgonohbabnfgopc?

Seen this? http://hackerfollow.com/

interesting implementation. I really liked the idea of just building a restful interface that people could plug into however they wanted to.

the best way to scrape HN would be for each user to submit an item's HTML or its cache of it when idle and when called upon. It could do a pre-check of the item, the time, size, # comments then do the whole page if called upon. You could keep a tally of who's submitting what. The system could go open-source as I'm sure other sites could use it. Perhaps the plugin just digs into a brower's cache at set periods of time. There might be copyright issues.