frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

10•AbstractH24•3h ago•8 comments

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

44•reconnecting•11h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?

52•lo0dot0•3d ago•15 comments

Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1

53•santiagobasulto•17h ago•30 comments

What if users start cloning SaaS using AI

2•mzubairtahir•4h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner

3•swingandamiss•6h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?

4•ghosts_•6h ago•4 comments

I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week

4•DamixLord•8h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

203•yehiaabdelm•4d ago•202 comments

Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?

3•cwmoore•9h ago•20 comments

Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged

24•frereubu•1d ago•2 comments

Tell HN: Fable is now credits only

9•teruakohatu•22h ago•7 comments

Ask HN: How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases

2•anitroves•11h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?

3•hbarka•11h ago•3 comments

Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT

15•theanonymousone•12h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Are LLMs slowly making companies dysfunctional?

6•haute_cuisine•13h ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?

3•Loerei•13h ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

245•whoishiring•6d ago•369 comments

Ask HN: What are alternative to Upwork for side gig?

6•user7878•17h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

10•Asmod4n•1d ago•11 comments

Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it

10•amukbils•1d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

151•whoishiring•6d ago•505 comments

Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?

10•franze•17h ago•15 comments

Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?

12•Tsarp•1d ago•14 comments

Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?

39•argee•1w ago•33 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?

7•cabyambo•1d ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?

7•melvinroest•1d ago•0 comments

You've reached the end!

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner

3•swingandamiss•6h ago
I'm often around others (bus, work, standing in line on my phone) and I don't want people to know my HN username. Many sites display the username in the upper right corner and it seems it's a privacy issue. Can we have an option to turn it off or just remove it completely?

In general I wish it would become a trend to stop displaying usernames at the to of sites. Reddit for example does this and I wish they didn't.

Comments

downbad_•6h ago
Then log out.
swingandamiss•6h ago
Then I can't vote up/down, hide, or flag posts and logged out users will get cached pages.
d3Xt3r•6h ago
Isn't it a bigger issue that they can even see your screen in the first place? Like what if you have to type a password or PIN into some app/website, or some other personal info?

So I'd recommend a different approach, like getting a privacy screen guard so the screen can only be viewed from a limited angle. Or get a pair of AR/XR glasses so only you can see the content and you can keep your device's screen off.

swingandamiss•5h ago
I rarely type my password or PIN. And if I did, I'd make sure to hide my screen. But I frequently casually read HN, reddit, and other sites casually and in public places. It would be nice if my username wasn't so visible to others.
al_borland•3h ago
A co-worker of mine ran into issues of people trying to read his screen while traveling, and he was doing stuff for work. He ended up getting a screen protector with a privacy filter, so people couldn’t read it off axis. It seemed pretty effective.

Nearly every website puts the username in the top corner. A screen protector seems more pragmatic than trying to petition every website to change well established conventions that millions (or billions) of users are already familiar with.

d3Xt3r•1h ago
Regardless, a privacy screen guard or glasses would be a much better solution for overall privacy and not just hiding your username.
vunderba•5h ago
Assuming you can run Tampermonkey, you can use my script which I've adapted to hide both the score and the username. It’s a script I personally use because I don’t like seeing my score since it just feels like a silly number, and I’d rather focus on the content than on whether my "number" goes up or down.

If you install this script in the Tampermonkey extension for Firefox/Chrome, it will automatically hide your username and your score on all HN pages.

https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/43f95d5e00af49110c41754ea...

swingandamiss•5h ago
Thanks. This is very useful. I'm surprised at push back I always get on this topic so it's nice to see I'm not the only one. I thought tech people were concerned about privacy, but I guess not? I know discord and a few other apps offer a "streamer mode" that hides the username so you don't broadcast it to your audience if you stream, I wish more apps and sites adopted that feature.
enragebait•4h ago
You could simply run an alternative browser that is not logged in, and switch to the logged in browser for interaction worthy activities.
RetroTechie•3h ago
Or an option to move username to the bottom of the page?

That way you'd have to scroll to the very bottom before it appears.

al_borland•3h ago
A slight scroll on the page hides it as-is. The header isn’t sticky.
blowsand•3h ago
Back of the line pal. You can have username hiding after we get dark mode.
jethronethro•3h ago
Good luck with this. Dark mode on this site will happen long before you get this option. And how long have HN users been waiting for dark mode?