# Subtle Improvements for Hacker News

> Small tweaks for Hacker News without presenting a drastically different interface.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `sihn`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Vinnl
- **Category:** appearance,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2019-05-20
- **First published:** 2019-04-05
- **Size:** 115 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sihn/)

## Description

"Subtle Improvements for Hacker News" is a Firefox add-on that adds small tweaks to Hacker News to solve minor annoyances.

## Rankings

- #52,056 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`
- `news.ycombinator.net`

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