# Hacker News Filter

> The addon filters submissions related to GPT and AI from front page of hacker news.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-filter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-filter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-filter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Prashant
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-04-21
- **First published:** 2023-04-06
- **Size:** 639 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-filter/)

## Description

Hacker News Filter is a Firefox add-on that allows users to filter AI/GPT related submissions from the front page of Hacker News. It provides a convenient way to avoid the recent AI news and hype.

## Rankings

- #145,291 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-filter)