# Hackers New

> Show items from HN's /newest page on the Hacker News front page.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hackers-new`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Rodney Folz
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Version:** 1.0.6resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-11-14
- **Size:** 30 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackers-new/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/folz/hackers-new/issues](https://github.com/folz/hackers-new/issues)

## Description

Hackers New is a Firefox add-on that adds items from HN's /newest page to the front page, allowing users to upvote them. It randomly selects stories from /newest and updates them every fifteen minutes.

## Rankings

- #138,050 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/*`
- `*://news.ycombinator.com/*`
- `alarms`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/hackers-new)