Hacker Smacker by Samuel Clay
Highlight (friend) and filter (foe) individual authors on Hacker News
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About this extension
Hacker Smacker adds friend/foe functionality to Hacker News, inspired by Slashdot's classic system.
Three small orbs appear next to every author's name on HN. Click to mark someone as a friend (highlighted in green) or a foe (marked in red). Neutral authors stay unmarked.
The real power is friend-of-a-friend (FoaF): if your friends also use Hacker Smacker, you'll see their friends and foes too. This helps you quickly spot quality commenters when scanning long threads.
Features:
- Friend or foe any author with one click
- See friend-of-a-friend and foe-of-a-friend indicators
- Works on all Hacker News pages
- Profile pages at hackersmacker.org showing your network
- Open source: github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker
Privacy: Hacker Smacker only collects your HN username and your friend/foe ratings. No browsing data is tracked, nothing is sold, no ads.
Three small orbs appear next to every author's name on HN. Click to mark someone as a friend (highlighted in green) or a foe (marked in red). Neutral authors stay unmarked.
The real power is friend-of-a-friend (FoaF): if your friends also use Hacker Smacker, you'll see their friends and foes too. This helps you quickly spot quality commenters when scanning long threads.
Features:
- Friend or foe any author with one click
- See friend-of-a-friend and foe-of-a-friend indicators
- Works on all Hacker News pages
- Profile pages at hackersmacker.org showing your network
- Open source: github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker
Privacy: Hacker Smacker only collects your HN username and your friend/foe ratings. No browsing data is tracked, nothing is sold, no ads.
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for news.ycombinator.com
- Access your data for www.hackersmacker.org
Required data collection, according to the developer:
- Authentication information
- Personally identifying information
- Website content
Optional data collection, according to the developer:
- Technical and interaction data
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- Version
- 2.0
- Size
- 95.42 KB
- Last updated
- 8 days ago (Feb 6, 2026)
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- MIT License
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