Hacker News Discussion Button

Name: Hacker News Discussion Button
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Jacob Strieb

By: Jacob Strieb

Links to the Hacker News discussion for the current page. Preserves privacy.

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This Firefox extension links to the Hacker News discussion for the current page and preserves privacy with Bloom filters.

When you visit a website, this browser extension determines whether the website has been submitted to Hacker News. If the current page has been on Hacker News, the extension lights up and becomes clickable. Clicking it retrieves a link to the best discussion for the page and navigates the browser there.

This extension uses a data structure called a Bloom filter to protect your privacy. Bloom filters can be thought of as a super condensed representation of the fingerprints of a long list of URLs. In this way, you can download the Bloom filter once (with periodic updates), and check if it contains the current website's URL fingerprint without making any requests over the Internet.

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Version:

0.7.0 Last updated: 2023-01-09

Version code:

5509364

Creation date:

2020-07-30

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Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

73.71KB

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Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 19,002 ▲ 256

Other rankings

#28 in hacker keyword 14 #62 in news keyword 34 ▲ 2#116 in mission keyword 7 #220 in hack keyword 19 #224 in session keyword 52 ▼ 9

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Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.

Developed by:

Jacob Strieb

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-discussion-button/

Website:

https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/issues

User Reviews

by 远离*****, 2025-04-14

by 全民*****, 2025-03-08

Why does it require access to data for all websites though???

by *****, 2021-04-12

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Is Hacker News Discussion Button Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Hacker News Discussion Button requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Hacker News Discussion Button has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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