Hacker News, Enhanced

Name: Hacker News, Enhanced
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Mackenzie Zastrow

By: Mackenzie Zastrow

Hacker News Enhanced. Like HNES, but before the restyling update

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Features & Capabilities

A Hacker News extension for Firefox and Chrome which changes lots of things. Fork of HNES, but before the restyling update

Features:

Completely new style
Easy access to all pages
Enhanced comment threads
- Collapsible comments
- Inline commenting
- Link to parent
- Display all comments on paginated threads
- Highlight the original poster
Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread
Highlight links once clicked to more easily identify what you've recently visited
Redirect back to the front page upon hitting an expired link
Display how many times you've upvoted each user
Graphs on polls
Clickable links in self posts and on users profile pages
New smooth and scalable up & down vote arrows
Keyboard controls on index pages:
- j - Next item
- k - Previous item
- o - Open story
- l - Open story in a new tab
- p - View comments
- c - View comments in a new tab
- b - Open both the comments and the story in new tabs
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User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Mackenzie Zastrow

Daily users:

Rating:

4.50

(2)

Version:

2.1.0.3resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-26

Version code:

5732025

Creation date:

2018-10-12

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.net
hackerne.ws
news.ycombinator.org
hckrnews.com

Size:

166.32KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 38,924 ▼ 283

Other rankings

#57 in hacker keyword 25 ▼ 1#155 in news keyword 37 ▼ 1#171 in enhance keyword 48 ▼ 1

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Developed by:

Mackenzie Zastrow

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hne/

Website:

https://github.com/zastrowm/HNE/issues

User Reviews

Since the HNES plugin stopped updating I've been looking for a more recent version. HNE seems to be pretty good to me.

by R*****, 2020-04-18

by Fi*****, 2019-10-08

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Is Hacker News, Enhanced Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Hacker News, Enhanced requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Hacker News, Enhanced has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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