Hacker News Visual Rank is a free Chrome add-on developed by Itay Shakury. This add-on aims to help users quickly triage Hacker News and determine popular items by visually emphasizing them.

With Hacker News Visual Rank, the font size of the stories on the Hacker News website changes according to the number of points (upvotes) and comments. This feature allows users to easily skim through the list of links and focus on the ones that are of interest to them. By making popular stories bigger and less popular stories smaller, this add-on provides a visual representation of the popularity of each story.

If you are an avid Hacker News reader and want to save time by quickly identifying the most popular stories, Hacker News Visual Rank can be a helpful tool. It provides a simple and intuitive way to prioritize your reading based on the popularity of the stories.