Emotions for HN

Name: Emotions for HN
Author: Swapnil

By: Swapnil

Add emotions to the HN comments!

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Features & Capabilities

Emotions for HN is a Firefox plugin which adds a UI control to comments section of hackernews (http://news.ycombinator.com) showing 5 emotions (listed below). Anybody can vote on these emotions and each comment will show how much emotions it accumulated. Supported emotions:

Empathetic
Encouraging
Ad Hominem
Flame war
Discouraging

The emotion having the highest vote on certain comment labeled as an emotion of that comment. So e.g. certain comment has a large number of vote for 'Empathetic' then the comment is labeled as empathetic. You can also enable emotion-highlighting where you can see all the comments which are labeled with given emotion.

Refer for more details: https://hn-emotions.appspot.com/

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Swapnil

Daily users:

Version:

0.0.1 Last updated: 2019-04-14

Version code:

3198156

Creation date:

2019-04-14

Risk:

Permissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://hn-emotions.appspot.com/
http://localhost:8080/
activeTab

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

13.76KB

Email:

sw*****@hardcodr.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 92,873 ▲ 826

Other rankings

#212 in notion keyword 54 ▼ 3

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Developed by:

Swapnil

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/emotions-for-hn/

Email:

sw*****@hardcodr.com

Website:

https://hn-emotions.appspot.com/

Is Emotions for HN Safe?

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Emotions for HN requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Emotions for HN is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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