Comments Owl for Hacker News
By: Jonny Buchanan
Makes it easer to follow comment threads on Hacker News across multiple visits, adds the ability to annotate and mute other users, plus some other UI and UX tweaks
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User Growth & Download Statistics
- By:
- Jonny Buchanan
- Daily users:
- 68 -1
- Rating:
- 5.00 (2)
- Version:
- 3.8.1 Last updated: 2026-05-04
- Version code:
- 6246989
- Creation date:
- 2019-08-17
- Risk:
- Low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
- Permissions:
- Content scripts matches:
- news.ycombinator.com
- news.ycombinator.com
- Size:
- 73.50KB
- Email:
- ex*****@soitis.dev
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Firefox Add-ons Store
- Data ingested on:
- 2026-06-20
- Compare stats and ranking:
- Comments Owl for Hacker News vs Improve HN
- Comments Owl for Hacker News vs Hacker News, Enhanced
- Comments Owl for Hacker News vs Hacker News Enhancement Suite
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Publisher Change History
2025-01-02: jo*****@gmail.com to ex*****@soitis.dev
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Is Comments Owl for Hacker News Safe?
Risk impact
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Comments Owl for Hacker News requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Comments Owl for Hacker News is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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