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by niico • 11 years ago

59 47 11 years ago

top.hn

aaronpk2• 11 years ago

Nice! You can also join the channel ##hackernews on freenode and see top stories in IRC! (That's how I saw this one!)

dom96• 11 years ago

Sounds like something #hackernews should be used for.

aaronpk2• 11 years ago

Last I heard, #startups was the official channel, and I didn't want to spam that.

raresp• 11 years ago

Nice one. What about Mozilla?

shinta3• 11 years ago

We'd love to, if the project gains some traction we'll definitely do it.

MacsHeadroom• 11 years ago

Or maybe open source it and let us do it for you?

bad_user3• 11 years ago

"Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"

No thanks.

byoogle7• 11 years ago

The 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) – in future iterations, we’d create our own api and just require access to http://top.hn/.

bad_user3• 11 years ago

While 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.

lepht• 11 years ago

I'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• 11 years ago

This 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• 11 years ago

I 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.

byoogle7• 11 years ago

This 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!

norman784• 11 years ago

+1 for having the real top story on their site

obsession• 11 years ago

Considering how much time I already spend on Hacker News, I certainly wouldn't want any notifications popping up.

byoogle7• 11 years ago

You 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• 11 years ago

Consider using ServiceWorker notifications for an extension-free way to do this.

shinta3• 11 years ago

I prefer sockets over Service Worker, no installation, no warnings. But definitely I will read in depth about this. Thanks.

nsgi• 11 years ago

The advantage of ServiceWorker is that it can show notifications even when the website isn't open. Browser support is limited for that, though.

JoshTriplett3• 11 years ago

Are 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.

shinta3• 11 years ago

That's a good idea, we have many plans for this if we get users, I will write you if we do this. Thanks.

austenallred2• 11 years ago

You 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-someon...

JoshTriplett3• 11 years ago

Interesting idea.

I wonder what it would take to get an HN article source added to services like ifttt or zapier?

_lce0• 11 years ago

nice!

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 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 which is a json object with the post's metadata

byoogle7• 11 years ago

I think we will: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613213

dubin• 11 years ago

Out of curiosity, what registrar did you use for the hn TLD?

byoogle7• 11 years ago

Gandi. Credit to niico for discovering that Hacker News has their own tld. :-P

giancarlostoro• 11 years ago

It's technically for Honduras. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn

tarr11• 11 years ago

I 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.

niico2• 11 years ago

Totally 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• 11 years ago

Except if everyone started using that, nobody would upvote anything except maybe spammer sockpuppets.

austenallred2• 11 years ago

There 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

soup10• 11 years ago

Personally I think just the front page has too much noise. I'd love to be able to filter out topics and submitters.

mason240• 11 years ago

Also check out Hacker News 300 and Hacker News 100 on twitter

https://twitter.com/newsyc100

https://twitter.com/newsyc300

Watabou• 11 years ago

For 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

Sephr3• 11 years ago

Obfuscated 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• 11 years ago

Asking 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.

Sephr3• 11 years ago

Yeah, it's okay to do this as long as the developer explains in the app/extension overview that the permissions are for planned features.

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