# Hacker News Mods

> Some customizations for Hacker News

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-mods`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** mp
- **Category:** web-development,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 3
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-08
- **First published:** 2024-10-07
- **Size:** 101 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-mods/)

## Description

Some modifications that I want to use personally on Hacker News.

There are no settings or anything complex.

Apart from style changes, textareas get smaller in height, and links open in a new tab always.

## Rankings

- #105,858 — Overall
- #120 — hacker

## Permissions and access

### 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-mods)