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by giu 2248 days ago
Funnily enough, one of my first GreaseMonkey scripts that I wrote 9 years ago was one that added the ability to collapse threads here on HackerNews [0]; this functionality was finally added in the past year or so to HN (not based on my implementation).

Worked like a charm back in the days :)

Another more popular GreaseMonkey script of mine was the Wikipedia TeX Source Extractor [1]; I used it extensively during my studies when writing lecture summaries, papers, or my thesis.

Userscripts are definitely fun and can be quite useful.

[0] https://github.com/giu/hacker-news-threadify

[1] https://github.com/giu/wikipedia-tex-source-extractor

Update: After not having touched the code of [1] for over 8 years, I just updated the userscript to work with Firefox 75.0 and the GreaseMoneky add-on v4.9.