hn-friends

Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News.

hn-friends: Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News

hn-friends is a Chrome extension that allows you to easily highlight and tag your friends on the popular news site Hacker News. With this extension, you can better keep track of your friends' comments and engage with them directly.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 21
Rating: 5.00
(2)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2018-08-10)
Creation date: 2018-08-10
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 16.21K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
hn-friends (v1.3resigned1)
21 5.00 (2)
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Works fine
by Boris Verkhovskiy, 2019-05-25

It's a simple extension that does one thing and does it really well.
by Mel Brands, 2019-01-14
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Extension safety

Risk impact

hn-friends requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of hn-friends. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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