A year ago I made a Chrome extension that took the top 10k links on HN and randomly sent the user there upon pressing the UI button. It was heavily influenced b

A year ago I made a Chrome extension that took the top 10k links on HN and randomly sent the user there upon pressing the UI button. It was heavily influenced by the original StumbleUpon. I got stuck because of CORS issues with iframes, as I wanted to further recreate some of that original experience. My next step was creating a drop down menu for the extension with info on tags, HN data, discussion, favoriting, rating, etc. I've moved far away from Chrome extensions as mobile usage has become predominant and extensions get more and more locked down. I like the proxy route this version takes. I imagine scale could become difficult to manage because of the weirdness of proxying. Caching seems like it would be an interesting problems as well. Would caching site data bring up legal issues? What would good server-side cache expiration times be? Anyways, I like this way of browsing the web. Discovery continues to be a hard problem, especially as more walled gardens emerge.