# HN Karma Display

> Displays the karma of Hacker News commenters next to their names

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-karma-display`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zach
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-28
- **First published:** 2026-01-25
- **Size:** 15 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-karma-display/)

## Description

HN Karma Display shows user karma values directly next to usernames. All data is fetched from the official Hacker News API.

## Rankings

- #110,051 — Overall
- #63 — display

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/*`
- `activeTab`

### 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/hn-karma-display)