Hacker News Tweaks

Name: Hacker News Tweaks
Author: holleyp

By: holleyp

Tweaks for Hacker News including hotkeys and dark mode.

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Features & Capabilities

This extension adds some features to Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com):

Keyboard navigation.
Hotkeys for voting, opening links (optionally in new tabs), and page navigation.
A dark mode toggle at the top right.
A help button at the top right to show hotkeys and settings, which can be disabled. You can reopen the help/settings menu with Shift+/ even if the button is hidden.
Un-grays downvoted comments and shows their numeric downvote score. Can be disabled in settings.
Un-grays post body text (HN makes the body text for text posts grayed out by default).

This is all accomplished in a single .js file and done just with the HTML on the current page (and a couple persistent browser things for remembering your dark mode/graytext settings), making it lightweight compared to other extensions. It is also necessarily source-available since you can just look at the extension itself and see all of the code it uses.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

holleyp

Daily users:

1 -1

Version:

1.3 Last updated: 2025-08-27

Version code:

6021285

Creation date:

2025-08-05

Risk:

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

15.33KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-21

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 97,388 ▼ 34,947

Other rankings

#145 in hacker keyword 25 ▼ 48

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Developed by:

holleyp

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-tweaks/

Is Hacker News Tweaks Safe?

Risk impact

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Hacker News Tweaks requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Hacker News Tweaks is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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