Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Name: Hacker News Enhancement Suite
Rating: 4.5152 (33 reviews)
Author: Chris James

By: Chris James

Hacker News Enhanced.

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Features & Capabilities

The Hacker News Enhancement Suite is a powerful Chrome extension designed to transform your Hacker News browsing experience. It offers a completely new style for the site and grants easy access to all pages. Users benefit from enhanced comment threads featuring collapsible comments, inline commenting, links to parent comments, and the ability to view all comments on paginated threads. The original poster is highlighted for better context.

Additional features include highlighting new comments since your last view, marking visited links, redirecting expired links back to the front page, and displaying the count of times you've upvoted each user. The extension also includes graphical displays for polls and clickable links in self posts and user profiles. For smoother interaction, it provides new scalable vote arrows and comprehensive keyboard controls for efficient navigation. You can even tag users for personal reference. Overall, this extension significantly upgrades your Hacker News engagement and efficiency.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on Developer Tools Communication

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Daily users:

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Version:

1.6.0.3 Last updated: 2023-01-01

Version code:

5506389

Creation date:

2017-11-16

Risk:

Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

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

Size:

81.44KB

Email:

hn*****@etcet.net

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 4,986 ▼ 78

Other rankings

#285 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▼ 5

#17 in hacker keyword 26

#20 in news keyword 37

#27 in enhance keyword 49 ▼ 1

#69 in hack keyword 19 ▲ 2

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Hacker News Enhancement Suite (v1.6.0.3)

3,000 4.43

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Developed by:

Chris James

Firefox Add-ons Store

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

Email:

hn*****@etcet.net

Website:

https://github.com/etcet/HNES/issues

Permission Change History

2023-01-01: Version 1.6.0.1 → 1.6.0.3

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User Reviews

The Hacker News Enhancement Suite improves the site's UI and usability, providing a cleaner and more pleasant experience without performance loss. Users praise its well-implemented code and empowering features. However, recurring issues include the add-on appearing disabled or limited in Firefox, broken comment pagination in that browser, and the inability to disable certain unwanted features like forced smooth scrolling.

Pros

Improves the Hacker News user interface with pleasant and empowering tweaks
Maintains performance without noticeable loss despite added features
The add-on is generally well-coded and stable
Users appreciate the enhancement over the classic Hacker News design
Simple and clean design appreciated by users

Cons

Add-on appears disabled or greyed out on Firefox with limited customization
Comment pagination is broken in Firefox, affecting usability
Cannot disable certain features like forced smooth scrolling, which some users dislike

Recent reviews

by 远离*****, 2025-03-27

by 天灭*****, 2025-02-21

The addon appears disabled (greyed out) for me on Firefox, so there's no customization available. But it does appear to be working.

by Ma*****, 2024-10-01

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Is Hacker News Enhancement Suite Safe?

Risk impact

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Hacker News Enhancement Suite requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Hacker News Enhancement Suite 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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