# Hacker News Tweaks

> Tweaks for Hacker News including hotkeys and dark mode.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-tweaks`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** holleyp
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-27
- **First published:** 2025-08-05
- **Size:** 15 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-tweaks/)

## Description

This extension adds some features to Hacker News (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/82ee2b1768fd6df7d4275e08225a1fff0161568b404206e9c8e3242bc218e876/http%3A//news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">news.ycombinator.com</a>):
- 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.

## Rankings

- #95,629 — Overall
- #153 — hacker

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low 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-tweaks)