Hacker Smacker

Highlight (friend) and filter (foe) individual authors on Hacker News

Hacker Smacker - Highlight and Filter Authors on Hacker News

Hacker Smacker is an Edge add-on that allows you to highlight and filter individual authors on Hacker News. It helps you identify quality commenters and reduce the time spent on Hacker News by quickly finding the good stuff.

Add-on stats

Manifest V2
Users: 289
22
Rating: 3.00
(2)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2021-04-29)
Creation date: 2021-04-29
Permissions:
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/
  • http://www.hackersmacker.org/
  • https://www.hackersmacker.org/
Size: 46.62K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox

User reviews

it does not work i'm leaving
by Toby, 2021-09-13

Great way to read Hacker News and easily spot the good comments.
by Sam, 2021-05-18
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Hacker Smacker requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

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