Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

4recommend
1warn against
Mar 8, 2026first mention
Oct 8, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used fortagging hn usershn web of trusttagging hn submissionsmarking and filtering hn usersmark users as friend or foefiltering hn comments

Why people recommend it

“Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up”

“https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great.”

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“I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments.”

“Every website needs to add the "friend or foe" system[0] so that I can mark bots”

Caveats and dissent

“using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post”

Who recommends it in their own words

From the makers not counted in the ranking

“There's na open issue to address this exact need.”

All comments 12

“Hacker Smacker in particular would be awesome if more users picked it up”

“I've been using HackerSmacker for a while to tag AI-related and non-AI-related submissions.”

“I've marked most of them red (as I previously did the one above) with https://hackersmacker.org”

“https://hackersmacker.org is pretty great.”

“I use https://hackersmacker.org to mark them with a red dot so I can skip those comments.”

“using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post”

“Every website needs to add the "friend or foe" system[0] so that I can mark bots”

“use the infrastructure from https://hackersmacker.org/”

“using the infrastructure from https://hackersmacker.org/”

“I've used this extension for the past 15 years and I can say that I love seeing foes show up in threads”

“that's great to know, because when I see them comment elsewhere I now have the context”

Threads where it came up

Also written as Hacker Smacker, HackersMacker, Hackersmacker. Data: hackersmacker.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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