Hacker Smacker

Name: Hacker Smacker
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Samuel Clay

By: Samuel Clay

Highlight (friend) and filter (foe) individual authors on Hacker News

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Features & Capabilities

Hacker Smacker adds friend/foe functionality to Hacker News, inspired by Slashdot's classic system.

Three small orbs appear next to every author's name on HN. Click to mark someone as a friend (highlighted in green) or a foe (marked in red). Neutral authors stay unmarked.

The real power is friend-of-a-friend (FoaF): if your friends also use Hacker Smacker, you'll see their friends and foes too. This helps you quickly spot quality commenters when scanning long threads.

Features:

Friend or foe any author with one click
See friend-of-a-friend and foe-of-a-friend indicators
Works on all Hacker News pages
Profile pages at hackersmacker.org showing your network
Open source: github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker

Privacy: Hacker Smacker only collects your HN username and your friend/foe ratings. No browsing data is tracked, nothing is sold, no ads.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

2.2 Last updated: 2026-03-05

Version code:

6171015

Creation date:

2026-02-06

Risk:

Permissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/
http://www.hackersmacker.org/
https://www.hackersmacker.org/
storage

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

99.55KB

Email:

sa*****@ofbrooklyn.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 20,440 ▲ 169

Other rankings

#19 in foe keyword 20 #21 in hacker keyword 25 #47 in author keyword 14 ▼ 1#61 in cmd+m (mac) keyword 18 ▼ 1#89 in hack keyword 19 ▲ 1

Other platforms

Hacker Smacker (v2.2)

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Hacker Smacker (v1.0)

262 3.00

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Developed by:

Samuel Clay

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-smacker/

Email:

sa*****@ofbrooklyn.com

Website:

https://www.hackersmacker.org

Permission Change History

2026-03-06: Version 2.1 → 2.2

Remove Permissions: http://localhost:3040/

2026-03-04: Version 2.0 → 2.1

Add Permissions: http://localhost:3040/

User Reviews

Can you add a gray button for people who write bland responses or users who just kind blend into the background noise

by Fi*****, 2026-03-24

Unfortunately, completely nonfunctional. Great idea! But even after verification, it just prompts me to verify. Clicking the verify button immediately reports success, but trying to assign a friend or foe doesn't work. Refreshing brings back up the prompt to verify.

by sp*****, 2026-03-05

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Is Hacker Smacker Safe?

Risk impact

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Hacker Smacker requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Hacker Smacker may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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