Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

A tiny homemade add-on called HNewhere just hit a very specific annoyance point for Hacker News readers: the ritual of opening one tab for the article and another for the comments every single time. The tool sticks the discussion next to the story in a sidebar, so people can read both at once without bouncing back and forth. In plain English: it turns a two-tab headache into one screen, and the comments section basically responded with a collective, exhausted “finally.”

The loudest reaction was pure relatability. One user confessed they’re “always middle clicking twice,” and then dropped the hottest take in the thread: this shouldn’t even need to exist because browsers should have built it already. That set the mood fast. Instead of arguing over whether the idea is useful, people mostly piled on with their own workarounds, like opening comments first and forcing the article into split screen like some kind of daily office ritual. The vibe was less “neat side project” and more “why are we all living like this in 2026?”

There was also some gentle product nitpicking, because of course there was. One commenter immediately asked about duplicate stories, while another praised the script as “slick” but pointed out a mobile problem: the sidebar got so wide they had to scroll sideways just to find the minimize button. Even the helpful feedback had that classic internet energy—supportive, but with a side of chaos. The result? A tiny tool, a very real pain point, and a comment section acting like it just discovered group therapy.