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- raresp 11y agoNice one. What about Mozilla?
- shinta 11y agoWe'd love to, if the project gains some traction we'll definitely do it.
- MacsHeadroom 11y agoOr maybe open source it and let us do it for you?
- bad_user 11y ago"Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" No thanks.
- byoogle 11y agoThe reason we use this permission is that we request an image from the source url to show you in each notification, but see my earlier comment about the mvp-ness of this project (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9612790 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9612790) – in future iterations, we’d create our own api and just require access to http://top.hn/ http://top.hn/.
- bad_user 11y agoWhile I understand that, there have been many extensions that have been sold and turned to malware, so I do not trust Chrome extensions any more than I trust executables downloaded from ThePirateBay, unless the extension demands reasonable permissions. I know that Chrome doesn't have a good permission model or a review process, but I still won't install your extension though.
- byoogle 11y agoWe’re not going to sell this extension to be turned into malware! I suspect I’m not going to be able to convince you with a comment, though. :-)
- atarian 11y agoYou could open source it
- byoogle 11y agoYeah, we probably will. We seem to be getting enough installs already to justify putting more dev cycles in. :-)
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- 0x62 11y agoChrome extensions already are open source (so to speak). They're simply .zip bundles, which run HTML, CSS and JS in the context of the page/browser [0]. The location depends on OS, but its pretty easy to find [1]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/overview https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/overview [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/14544700/2078412 http://stackoverflow.com/a/14544700/2078412
- Sephr 11y agoThis extension will help you find the source for any extension you encounter on the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-source-v/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...
- bad_user 11y agoThat's not enough, as the behavior can be updated by Chrome to a new version without noticing me the user.
- lepht 11y agoI'm with bad_user. In the interest of mvp-ness, not showing this image at all (and not requesting these permissions) would have resulted in me installing the extension with no extra effort on your part (presumably.) As it is, I won't install this :/
- d2p 11y agoThis is not a valid reason. Having access to all my private data, my banking website, my gmail, and anything else you want is unacceptable. I'm shocked that anyone at all would install your extension. It's no wonder so much private data is leaked all the time when people make our these sorts of permissions are acceptable and defend them when questioned.
- henvic 11y agoI don't care about your reasons. Just don't ask for this permission. I'd like to use your app (I really don't care about the image), but this is a deal breaker. I just can't take the risk.
- aaronpk 11y agoNice! You can also join the channel ##hackernews on freenode and see top stories in IRC! (That's how I saw this one!)
- byoogle 11y agoThis is a one-day, mvp-type project that our team made, mostly to scratch our own Hacker News–junkie itch, but we’re also inclined to do more if the project gains some traction, so please let us know any feedback/ideas/meditations!
- JoshTriplett 11y agoAre there any services out there that do this by email, and in particular that have domain filters? I'd love to get a notification when any domain I'm associated with gets posted to HN.
- shinta 11y agoThat's a good idea, we have many plans for this if we get users, I will write you if we do this. Thanks.
- austenallred 11y agoYou could modify this service to email you instead of send you a text message (this is a tutorial to text you anytime a certain URL shows up on HN) https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someone-posts-an-article-from-your-domain-on-hacker-news-using-node-js-firebase-and-twilio.html https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someon...
- JoshTriplett 11y agoInteresting idea. I wonder what it would take to get an HN article source added to services like ifttt or zapier?
- mikeknoop 11y agoI have one, actually! Check out the top Zap listed here: http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/ http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/ (it uses the Algolia search engine as a feed of posts to trigger on)
- JoshTriplett 11y agoPerfect, thanks!
- norman784 11y ago+1 for having the real top story on their site
- obsession 11y agoConsidering how much time I already spend on Hacker News, I certainly wouldn't want any notifications popping up.
- byoogle 11y agoYou should give the extension a whirl – you only get a few notifications per day. Perhaps you’ll even end up spending less time here. :-)
- rictic 11y agoConsider using ServiceWorker notifications for an extension-free way to do this.
- _lce0 11y agonice! any plans to open source the extension? -- Here's how it's working on the page, not sure if the extension works the same, but seems poll based: 1. they grab the top stories from https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json which is a huge json array of ids .. then they take the one in the head and .. 2. load: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9611829.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9611829.json which is a json object with the post's metadata
- byoogle 11y agoI think we will: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613213
- dubin 11y agoOut of curiosity, what registrar did you use for the hn TLD?
- byoogle 11y agoGandi. Credit to niico for discovering that Hacker News has their own tld. :-P
- giancarlostoro 11y agoIt's technically for Honduras. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn
- akhalr 11y agoIf this looked even remotely useful to you, do check out Distill (https://distill.io https://distill.io). Distill can be used on most websites (including HN), can send you notifications, and doesn't need a local browser (or access to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"). Disclaimer: I know the developer personally. But if there ever was an appropriate plug, this one is.
- tarr11 11y agoI would love a script that shows me posts with exactly 2 upvotes. There's a lot of interesting links on the new page that is mixed in with spam.
- niico 11y agoTotally agree. We're just testing a concept here. If people like the product, we'll keep adding more and more filters and features like that
- robert_tweed 11y agoExcept if everyone started using that, nobody would upvote anything except maybe spammer sockpuppets.
- austenallred 11y agoThere are various "Hacker News N" Twitter accounts, where n == number of upvotes. I really like "Hacker News 20" it's just high enough of a number that it's not a constant drip, but a little more diverse than the front page. https://twitter.com/newsyc20 https://twitter.com/newsyc20
- mason240 11y agoAlso check out Hacker News 300 and Hacker News 100 on twitter https://twitter.com/newsyc100 https://twitter.com/newsyc100 https://twitter.com/newsyc300 https://twitter.com/newsyc300
- Watabou 11y agoFor what it's worth, and for people with iOS (not sure if Android has a similar app), I use Hooks[1]. I set it to 500 karma threshold to notify me and that seems to have been working out fine so far. [1]: Hooks - Alerts for Everything by Oleg Kozynenko https://appsto.re/us/teuc3.i https://appsto.re/us/teuc3.i
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- Sephr 11y agoObfuscated code plus these permissions isn't helping me trust you. As a Chrome extension developer, I can tell at a glance that many of these permissions are not necessary to implement the functionality as described. "permissions": [ "<all_urls>", "activeTab", "alarms", "background", "browsingData", "chrome://favicon/", "clipboardWrite", "contextMenus", "cookies", "declarativeContent", "fontSettings", "gcm", "identity", "idle", "notifications", "pageCapture", "power", "proxy", "sessions", "storage", "system.cpu", "system.display", "system.memory", "system.storage", "tabCapture", "tabs", "topSites", "tts", "unlimitedStorage", "webNavigation", "webRequest", "webRequestBlocking" ] Definitely not taking any chances installing this.
- motoboi 11y agoAsking full privileges is a way of avoiding changing them on a update. If you change permissions on a update, chrome will ask for user interaction. That being said, if you don't plan to broad the scope of an app or extension in the future, there is no point. This technique is applied on a lot of android apps too.
- Sephr 11y agoYeah, it's okay to do this as long as the developer explains in the app/extension overview that the permissions are for planned features.