I personally use "Hacker News Collapsible Comments"[1], but it breaks whenever they add the black bar to the top of the site.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

I use this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

It doesn't break with black bars.

What is that bar at the top for anyway?

It is added when somebody "noteworthy" has died.

Hacker News Enhancement Suite deals with that just fine in my experience.

This doesn't help on mobile, and these browser extensions are frequently broken when markup changes.

And the screen on mobile is obviously smaller so collapsability is even more needed.

Given how infrequently HN updates their markup, I don't think such extensions will break very often.

It's probably a couple times a year. Is that infrequent? That depends on how much time you have to devote to being a plugin maintainer I suppose.

Why have I never seen this magic before?!

Yeah but I had to download the enhancement suite first to find this second comment...thanks though

Thank you for this link, this extension really makes the site a lot more enjoyable.

Where has this been all my life! Excellent, thanks for this.

Any Safari extensions for this? This sounds awesome!

I use the Safari extension from http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions. Works great.

Thank you! I've just installed it and it seems to be working pretty well so far.

If there was a Firefox version, it might actually be usable on Android, too.