Hide threads from blocked users and highlight valuable users on Hacker News.
Users
20
0 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#155K
#129K among extensions
Version
0.11.0
updated 13 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:20 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Overmod for Hacker News
Adds a personal ban list for sites like Hacker News that allow you to remove user comments from the page automatically so that you can spend less time and get more info.
Highlight users in different colors so you can pick out the ones you trust.
Changelog:
0.11.0: Cache lists in the background, not in-band
0.10.0: Remove O(n^2) highlight/blocking to improve performance on big threads
0.9.0: Fix some bugs regarding header line, allow regex match for local blocks
0.8.0: Remove "blocked" placeholder and fix counting
0.7.0: Also allow hiding comments from green users
0.6.1: Also block on user pages, just not for the user whose page it is
0.6.0: Allow transient lists, where people can be unhidden temporarily per-page
0.5.0: Added import/export; solve options bugs and highlight bugs
0.4.2: Highlighted users' comments shouldn't be 'dead'/'flagged'
0.4.1: Small code cleanup
0.4.0: Add different colours for different highlight lists