I made a chrome extension that embeds a bell icon in your Hacker News header.

It shows the count of new unread replies to your HN threads. Clicking on it shows the unread comments, and you can directly navigate to the thread from there.

Unlike similar tools, this one is less intrusive as it doesn’t send any push notifications or emails. It just shows the count of unread replies whenever you come back to HN.

Also, this extension does not collect your email, cookies or any sensitive information. It just uses your public HN username!

Planning to build more features like grouped notifications. Would also love to hear your feedback and suggestions to improve this extension. Please follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/engagespot to stay updated.