# Hacker News Plus

> This extension adds hoverable parent/reply links to enhance the Hacker News comment section.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-plus`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Edvin
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 0.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-04-06
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-plus/)

## Description

Hacker News Plus is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that enhances the Hacker News comment section by adding hoverable links to parent comments and direct replies. Easily navigate comment threads and explore relevant discussions effortlessly.

## Rankings

- #64,641 — Overall
- #87 — 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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