{"slug": "hackersmacker", "name": "HackerSmacker", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 1.803, "rising": -0.31, "first": "2026-03-08", "latest": "2026-10-08", "why": "I've used this extension for the past 15 years and I can say that I love seeing foes show up in threads", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I've used this extension for the past 15 years and I can say that I love seeing foes show up in threads", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "hackersmacker.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.hackersmacker.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["HackerSmacker", "Hacker Smacker", "HackersMacker", "Hackersmacker"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800216336, "item_id": 50013521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013521", "by": "solaire_oa", "date": "2026-10-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up", "excerpt": "I use a combination of Hacker Smacker (seems roughly the same idea), and TrustSpark for HN, which I also vibed (pre-Opus, probably could be improved at this point). Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up (since it's a web of trust, albeit 1 hop only).", "context": "", "use_case": "HN web of trust", "switched_from": "", "story": "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"}, {"id": 779595696, "item_id": 48724731, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724731", "by": "nomel", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great.", "excerpt": "https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great. It allows me to not waste effort. After using it for a while now, there's incredible consistency with people I mark making the same shallow types of comment/inability to think. I think tribalism is just more pronounced in some people.", "context": "", "use_case": "Tagging HN users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party"}, {"id": 762627072, "item_id": 47664192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664192", "by": "nomel", "date": "2026-04-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments.", "excerpt": "> There's little I can do I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments. It's like slashdot's friend/foe system (including social aspect). There are also plugins that allow blocking and filtering users. I'm, personally, here to interact with people interested in tech. I feel no shame in curating my experience to fit that. If I wanted to be saturated in politics, I would make", "context": "", "use_case": "marking and filtering HN users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon"}, {"id": 758034880, "item_id": 47377180, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377180", "by": "dbmikus", "date": "2026-03-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every website needs to add the \"friend or foe\" system[0] so that I can mark bots", "excerpt": "Every website needs to add the \"friend or foe\" system[0] so that I can mark bots to avoid their content and mark good posters so I can filter just to theirs. [0]: https://hackersmacker.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Mark users as friend or foe", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 756861248, "item_id": 47303828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303828", "by": "solaire_oa", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am having a blast with this", "excerpt": "I am having a blast with this: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker I dropped into /new so that I can \"foe\" all the barf.", "context": "", "use_case": "Filtering HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 761969840, "item_id": 47623115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623115", "by": "alephnerd", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post", "excerpt": "> As soon as you get 'followers' it is game over. This is already happening on HN now via HackerSmacker [0]. I've found a couple HN users who have that have apparently been using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post. [0] - https://hackersmacker.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The open web isn't dying. We're killing it"}]}], "who": [{"by": "conesus", "context": "long-time HN user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177182", "date": "2026-02-26"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["tagging hn users", "hn web of trust", "tagging hn submissions", "marking and filtering hn users", "mark users as friend or foe", "filtering hn comments"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 754813168, "item_id": 47175823, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175823", "by": "conesus", "date": "2026-02-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There's na open issue to address this exact need.", "excerpt": "There's na open issue to address this exact need. I haven't figured out a good compromise yet, but an option to include symbols would be good. https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker/issues/3", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Hacker Smacker \u2013 spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141119", "title": "Show HN: Hacker Smacker \u2013 spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329", "title": "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006832", "title": "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850", "title": "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792383", "title": "Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687508", "title": "Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 800216336, "item_id": 50013521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013521", "by": "solaire_oa", "date": "2026-10-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up", "excerpt": "I use a combination of Hacker Smacker (seems roughly the same idea), and TrustSpark for HN, which I also vibed (pre-Opus, probably could be improved at this point). Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up (since it's a web of trust, albeit 1 hop only).", "context": "", "use_case": "HN web of trust", "switched_from": "", "story": "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"}, {"id": 794606000, "item_id": 49662875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662875", "by": "ryankrage77", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using HackerSmacker for a while to tag AI-related and non-AI-related submissions.", "excerpt": "I've been using HackerSmacker for a while to tag AI-related and non-AI-related submissions. I find, depending on the time of day, 30-50% of submissions are about AI. Also, Users who submit AI-related content tend to also submit non-AI-related content - those I tag for non-AI-related content almost never submit AI-related content.", "context": "", "use_case": "tagging HN submissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"}, {"id": 781646176, "item_id": 48852886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852886", "by": "nomel", "date": "2026-07-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've marked most of them red (as I previously did the one above) with https://hackersmacker.org", "excerpt": "It actually seems to be a relatively small vocal group. I've marked most of them red (as I previously did the one above) with https://hackersmacker.org", "context": "", "use_case": "Tagging HN users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made"}, {"id": 779595696, "item_id": 48724731, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724731", "by": "nomel", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great.", "excerpt": "https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great. It allows me to not waste effort. After using it for a while now, there's incredible consistency with people I mark making the same shallow types of comment/inability to think. I think tribalism is just more pronounced in some people.", "context": "", "use_case": "Tagging HN users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party"}, {"id": 762627072, "item_id": 47664192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664192", "by": "nomel", "date": "2026-04-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments.", "excerpt": "> There's little I can do I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments. It's like slashdot's friend/foe system (including social aspect). There are also plugins that allow blocking and filtering users. I'm, personally, here to interact with people interested in tech. I feel no shame in curating my experience to fit that. If I wanted to be saturated in politics, I would make", "context": "", "use_case": "marking and filtering HN users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon"}, {"id": 761969840, "item_id": 47623115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623115", "by": "alephnerd", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post", "excerpt": "> As soon as you get 'followers' it is game over. This is already happening on HN now via HackerSmacker [0]. I've found a couple HN users who have that have apparently been using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post. [0] - https://hackersmacker.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The open web isn't dying. We're killing it"}, {"id": 758034880, "item_id": 47377180, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377180", "by": "dbmikus", "date": "2026-03-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every website needs to add the \"friend or foe\" system[0] so that I can mark bots", "excerpt": "Every website needs to add the \"friend or foe\" system[0] so that I can mark bots to avoid their content and mark good posters so I can filter just to theirs. [0]: https://hackersmacker.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Mark users as friend or foe", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 756861248, "item_id": 47303828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303828", "by": "solaire_oa", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am having a blast with this", "excerpt": "I am having a blast with this: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker I dropped into /new so that I can \"foe\" all the barf.", "context": "", "use_case": "Filtering HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts"}, {"id": 756840720, "item_id": 47302545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302545", "by": "pinkmuffinere", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "use the infrastructure from https://hackersmacker.org/", "excerpt": "I was thinking of setting up a system to highlight sock-puppeters and other consistent-rule-violating accounts, as a 'fun project' that might improve the HN experience. I've asked dang in another thread if he has any objections, but am curious to hear other input as well -- is this something people would want? Obviously it would not change the comments that are actually on HN, it would just call out 'bad' contributor", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"}, {"id": 756840480, "item_id": 47302530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302530", "by": "pinkmuffinere", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "using the infrastructure from https://hackersmacker.org/", "excerpt": "I was thinking of setting up a system to highlight sock-posters and other consistent-rule-violating accounts, as a 'fun project' that might improve the HN experience. But it strikes me that the HN staff probably already does something like this, they may not welcome a side-loaded project of this sort, and it would require some automated crawling of HN (which again may be unwelcomed). Finally, I don't actually have ex", "context": "", "use_case": "Tagging HN users as foes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"}, {"id": 754834912, "item_id": 47177182, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177182", "by": "conesus", "date": "2026-02-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used this extension for the past 15 years and I can say that I love seeing foes show up in threads", "excerpt": "Hacker Smacker doesn't mean you ignore your foes. Their comments are now labeled with the tiny red orb, giving you acknowledgement of how you've felt about them in the past. I've used this extension for the past 15 years and I can say that I love seeing foes show up in threads. I still read their comments, but I know going into it that I can probably skip it after the first sentence if I recognize that it's more of w", "context": "long-time HN user", "use_case": "Browser extension for HN commenters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Hacker Smacker \u2013 spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"}, {"id": 754833904, "item_id": 47177119, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177119", "by": "conesus", "date": "2026-02-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "that's great to know, because when I see them comment elsewhere I now have the context", "excerpt": "I have not found that to be the case. I have over 150 commenters on my Hacker Smacker foe list and I have only found once or twice that somebody who goes into the red bucket deserves to go into the green bucket. Now the way I use the friend/foe system of labeling may be different than others, and it's a personal decision for how you choose to label commenters. But the way I do it, if somebody has an opinion that puts", "context": "", "use_case": "labeling HN commenters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Hacker Smacker \u2013 spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"}]}