Hacker News UX

Name: Hacker News UX
Rating: 3.6667 (3 reviews)
Author: HNUX

By: HNUX

Hacker News user experience enhancement

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Features & Capabilities

Hacker News UX v2, enhances your experience with Hacker News.

Check out the demo video, and screenshots to get a glimpse of the features!

How to enable on Firefox

Install the extension
Then visit HN
Then click the puzzle icon on top-right corner, to grant permissions
On the menu, next to HNUX extension item, click the settings icon, and then grant permission to allow all the time
Auto-Load, and Columns Browse lists with auto-load, and columns, enhancing surfacing of interesting content.
Dynamic Reply Reply to comments in-place, and without page-refresh.
Explore, with Profile Pop-Up, and Columns Explore content with profile tooltips, and by opening threads, and profiles into columns, and without managing tabs, or losing progress.
Secure, and Private
History

Hacker News UX v1, was featured on Mashable. http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

HNUX

Daily users:

7 1

Rating:

3.67

(3)

Version:

2.0.2 Last updated: 2023-05-27

Version code:

5572352

Creation date:

2023-05-26

Risk:

Permissions:

unlimitedStorage

Host permissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/*
http://news.ycombinator.net/*
http://news.ycombinator.org/*
http://news.ycombinator.com/*

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.net
news.ycombinator.org

Size:

94.17KB

Email:

hn*****@protonmail.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 36,412 ▲ 2,243

Other rankings

#3 in ux keyword 14 #41 in hacker keyword 14 ▲ 3#102 in news keyword 34 ▲ 11#233 in column keyword 7 ▲ 13#236 in hack keyword 19 ▲

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Developed by:

HNUX

Firefox Add-ons Store

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

Email:

hn*****@protonmail.com

Website:

https://carina.app/hnux

User Reviews

Doesn't seem to work. Doesn't follow light/dark theme. Font choice is odd. :( sigh

by co*****, 2025-06-17

by sh*****, 2024-12-22

I find it super convenient how it goes about changing the layout of hacker-news. It would be cool to be able to integrate other themes as well.

by Jo*****, 2024-01-30

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Is Hacker News UX 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 UX requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Hacker News UX 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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