# Hackerfeed for Hacker News

> Replaces the Firefox homepage with Hackerfeed, providing a curated feed of tech news and updates. Powered by Hacker News.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hackerfeed](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hackerfeed)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hackerfeed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** hei-lima
- **Category:** search-tools,alerts-updates,tabs
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-10
- **First published:** 2024-09-10
- **Size:** 1.18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackerfeed/)
- **Website:** [https://hei-lima.tech](https://hei-lima.tech/)

## Description

Hackerfeed transforms your Firefox homepage into a dynamic tech news dashboard. Stay updated with curated tech news from Hacker News, enjoy seamless dark mode support, and perform quick searches with Google integration. Additionally, access your most visited sites directly from the homepage. Perfect for tech enthusiasts and developers.

You can build it from source on <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/79b9b9fe6d9a69f61e1ed1b6e30c0b6f8a49c524750a42f4f27507f9ce98be29/https%3A//github.com/hei-lima/hackerfeed" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hei-lima/hackerfeed</a>

## Rankings

- #43,164 — Overall
- #53 — hacker
- #163 — news

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `topSites`
- `search`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Access to most visited websites information, poses a low privacy 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/hackerfeed)