Hackernews Userscript

Name: Hackernews Userscript
Author: Drake Rossman

Hackernews Userscript - a browser extension which implements filtering and soft-hiding capabilities for news.ycombinator.com AKA Hacker News. Play Hide and Seek!

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Features & Capabilities

The extension provides features, which allow users to filter submissions based on a text or a regular expression:

Filter submissions by text in title or link
Filter comments by text
Hide submissions and comments from a specific user
Get visual feedback on how many items were hidden by a particular filter
Toggle hide of all the children for a hidden parent comment
Show [hidden] placeholder in place of hidden items
Hide an individual submission, without auto-loading the next one. You can hide everything on the page, and it will stay blank!

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Drake Rossman

Daily users:

Version:

1.0.0 Last updated: 2024-01-29

Version code:

5683852

Creation date:

2024-01-28

Risk:

Permissions:

declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

*://news.ycombinator.com/*

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

409.84KB

Email:

dr*****@protonmail.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-20

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 148,962 ▲ 2,528

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Developed by:

Drake Rossman

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackernews-userscript/

Email:

dr*****@protonmail.com

Website:

https://drakerossman.com

Is Hackernews Userscript Safe?

Risk impact

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Hackernews Userscript requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Hackernews Userscript is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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