# Hackernews Userscript

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

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hackernews-userscript`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Drake Rossman
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-01-29
- **First published:** 2024-01-28
- **Size:** 410 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackernews-userscript/)
- **Website:** [https://drakerossman.com](https://drakerossman.com/)

## Description

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!

## Rankings

- #133,711 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `declarativeNetRequest`

### Host permissions

- `*://news.ycombinator.com/*`

### 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hackernews-userscript)