# HN Comments

> Link to discussion of the current page on Hacker News.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hn-comments](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hn-comments)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-comments`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Etienne
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.4resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-04-10
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-comments/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-comments/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-comments/privacy/)

## Description

HN Comments is a Firefox add-on that allows you to easily find and link to the Hacker News discussion thread corresponding to the current page. Simply install the add-on and it will send the current URL to the Hacker News Algolia search engine to locate the comment thread.

## Rankings

- #96,386 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://hn.algolia.com/*`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/hn-comments)