# hn-friends

> Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-friends`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jesse
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 17
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-08-08
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-friends/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends/issues](https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends/issues)

## Description

hn-friends is a Firefox add-on that allows users to highlight and tag their friends on Hacker News for easy identification and communication within the platform.

## Rankings

- #26,296 — Overall
- #21 — friend

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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/hn-friends)