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Show HN: HTML5 Web Push Notifications for trending HN stories in Chrome

• captn3m0 11y ago
  A friend of mine made something similar: https://github.com/yankee101/HNDN https://github.com/yankee101/HNDN
  • matthewbauer 11y ago
    What's neat about this though is it doesn't require any installation. If the Web Push Notifications API has been used properly, it should even support Firefox and IE if/when they support the new API.
    • gdeglin 11y ago
      Yep :) We'll update this page to support other browsers once those browsers implement the new Web Push APIs.
• curiousjorge 11y ago
  is there any privacy issues with this? I'm thinking no since it doesnt seem to require any installation and it just sends push, am I correct?
  • gdeglin 11y ago
    Nope. It does use HTML5 service workers, which are sort of like cookies that can run code. But, like cookies, they're limited to actions on the hackernews.onesignal.com domain and they can be removed at any time.
    • captn3m0 11y ago
      Wow, this sounds wonderful and scary at the same time. This would be an excellent attack vector for running mosquito [0], if you can find the relevant exploits. [0]: https://github.com/koto/mosquito https://github.com/koto/mosquito