Life & fun · February 24, 2026
Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Hacker Smacker adds friend/foe functionality to Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every commenter's name. Click to friend or foe a commenter and you'll more easily spot them on future threads. Makes it easy to scroll and spot the commenters you love to read (and hate to read). Main website: https://hackersmacker.org Chrome/Edge extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-smacker/lmcg... Safari extension: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-smacker/id1480749725 Firefox extension:…
Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance launched on February 24, 2026 with 148 votes, #203 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Hacker Smacker is a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox that adds friend and foe marking to Hacker News commenters. Users click colored orbs next to commenter names to tag them as friends or foes, then easily spot these marked commenters in future threads. The extension includes a friend-of-a-friend feature: if both users have Hacker Smacker installed, friends and foes of marked commenters are also highlighted, helping readers quickly identify quality comments in long threads.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Hacker Smacker helps you identify quality authors and filter out obnoxious commenters on Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every author's name and you can choose to either friend or foe them. I've found that this reduces the time I spent on Hacker News, as I can glance at long comment threads and just find the good stuff. Hacker Smacker is directly inspired by Slashdot's friend/foe system. Hacker Smacker is also open-source and is available on GitHub . Hacker Smacker was built to learn how FoaF (Friend of a Friend) works. The idea is that not only do you want to surface content from your friends, but if you chose your friends well, they can help you surface more great content by…from hackersmacker.org
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hacker Smacker adds friend/foe functionality to Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every commenter's name. Click to friend or foe a commenter and you'll more easily spot them on future threads. Makes it easy to scroll and spot the commenters you love to read (and hate to read). Main website…
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- MHMeet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city2024 · ▲768
Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News2018 · github.com · ▲70Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News. Contribute to veggiedefender/hn-friends development by creating an account on GitHub.
- HAHackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories2023 · hackyournews.com · ▲335
Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…
Find HN threads about the page you're browsing2020 · github.com · ▲260Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads2021 · chrome.google.com · ▲79
Comments Owl for Hacker News2023 · apps.apple.com · ▲85Highlight new comments, mute users & tweak UI on Hacker News
More life & fun this month
the category →
A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.
Life & fun · 3d ago · permit.petercai.com
- IV
Life & fun · 15d ago · tanzaniaeducationproject.org
Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.
Life & fun · 16d ago · bigwords.page
Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.
Life & fun · 10d ago · guitoro.com
Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed.
Life & fun · 14d ago · carrierexplode.com
Life & fun · 24d ago · space.bl2.net
Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
Launched alongside, February 2026
the whole month →
Lovon AI Therapy▲801Feel closer and have more fun with your partner every day!
AI · Feb 2026 · lovon.app
Hello my name is Ben Ward for the past 3 years I have been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 1986. It has been a rough journey but I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just recently redid the website and thought maybe the full story of how this project came to be would interest you all. Thank you for reading.
Work · Feb 2026 · wallstreetraider.com