# hcker.news helper

> The official companion extension for hcker.news, an alternative Hacker News frontend. Vote, favorite, flag, hide, and reply with your HN account directly on hcker.news

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hcker-news`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** hcker.news
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-18
- **First published:** 2026-06-16
- **Size:** 48 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hcker-news/)

## Description

hcker.news helper is the official companion extension for hcker.news, an alternative Hacker News interface.

<strong>Features</strong>
<ul><li>Upvote stories and comments, and downvote comments</li><li>Favorite, flag, and hide stories and comments, with supported actions undoable</li><li>Reply to stories and comments</li><li>See which Hacker News account is active</li><li>Open the matching hcker.news page from any Hacker News thread using the toolbar button</li></ul>
<strong>How to use</strong>

Log in to Hacker News in the same browser context, then open hcker.news. The extension uses your existing Hacker News session; it does not require separate account credentials.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers and private windows are supported.

Made by the creator of hcker.news. Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator.

## Rankings

- #37,895 — Overall
- #177 — news

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `hcker.news`
- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

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