# HN Stories

> sneak peek hacker news

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-stories`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** bigyank
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-02-22
- **First published:** 2021-02-21
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-stories/)

## Description

"HN Stories" is a small Firefox add-on that allows you to easily view top, new, and best Hacker News stories. It provides features such as navigating to post links, comment sections, author profiles, and displaying post time.

## Rankings

- #80,622 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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-stories)