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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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hackernews-button
- GitHub - jstrieb/hackernews-button: Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussions; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly
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Ask HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page. Feedback please
It's worth noting that my extension is far from perfect – it turns out that determining whether a specific page has been submitted to Hacker News is far from a trivial problem to solve. In general, this is because multiple URLs can map to the same page.
Direct string comparison of the current URL to previously submitted ones doesn't work because there are many ways for two identical web pages to have different URLs. For example, the URL fragments can differ (the part after the "#" that may or may not be present). Also there can be tracking parameters (often—but not necessarily—prefixed with "utm_"), which don't change anything about the page. But the URL parameters can't be entirely disregarded because sometimes sites, forums in particular, rely on them – consider pages that use an "?id=..." parameter for different pages. Thus some parameters should be removed, but some shouldn't. The same website having different domains (or domains that change over time) further complicates the situation.
My solution was to "canonicalize" URLs by transforming them into a simplified form using some pretty rough heuristics for common sources of noise. The Python code to do that is here: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/blob/master/can...
All of this to say that even though I've used my extension for months and have been quite happy, there will inevitably be false negatives.
- Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly
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Show HN: Privacy-preserving browser extension linking to HN discussion
Thanks for clearing that up, yes I'm not that familiar with Bloom filters, seems like an interesting and useful concept. It could probably (pun intended) be applied to many applications to increase privacy.
I like the [1] Workflow file you've made, the comments really help with reading shell code. I'm also amazed you can query 4M entries everyday with BigQuery, I thought that might be fairly expensive to do right? Or is this below a free tier?
[1] https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/actions/runs/61...
cookie-editor
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FYI, Google removed the 'Get cookies.txt' extension from the store.
Feature was requested, but not yet implemented... https://github.com/Moustachauve/cookie-editor/issues/17
What are some alternatives?
newsit - Chrome Extension for Hacker News and Reddit Links
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yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
hetzblocker - A browser extension that creates awareness of quality and responsibility in online media.
BetterTweetDeck - A browser extension to improve TweetDeck with a lot of features
chrome-inertiajs - Chrome extension to display an up-to-date Inertia.js page json in Chrome devtools panel.
nightTab - A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour. Customise the layout, style, background and bookmarks with nightTab.
enimax - A cross platform application to watch anime.
PlantUML4iPad - An AI powered PlantUML Editor App for iPad
whats-new-github - See what's new and what's not in your GitHub dashboard's feeds and in your organizations' feeds.
disable-page-visibility-api - 🔒 Prevent websites from tracking whether you are currently in another tab/ window.
modulab - Yet another NewTab replacement extension for Firefox; this time, with a modern aesthetic inspired by Apple's Safari browser and Google's Material You.