# Hacker News Enhancement Suite

> Hacker News Enhanced.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hnes`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Chris James
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 479
- **Rating:** 4.52 / 5 (33 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.6.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2023-01-01
- **First published:** 2017-11-16
- **Size:** 81 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hnes/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/etcet/HNES/issues](https://github.com/etcet/HNES/issues)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #5,127 — Overall
- #292 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #17 — hacker
- #19 — news
- #29 — enhance
- #65 — hack

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Content script matches

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

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

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

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- [Enhanced HN](https://chrome-stats.com/d/enhanced-hn)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hnes)