swyxio / hnx

swyx's hacker news chrome extension

Hacker News Extended

This is an extension for Google Chrome that:

• displays the latest links from Y Combinator's Hacker News
• Offers a link for submitting the url of the current tab.
• shows previous results when submitting in case someone recently submitted

Usage instructions

This extension has not yet been published. To use this you'll have to:

• clone this repo
• open chrome://extensions/ and enable Developer mode
• "Load unpacked" and open the folder that contains this repo

Now you should have the orange "Y" square in your chrome extensions list (I use it often enough that I "pin" it to the top.)

• click it to see the HN front page, and search
• whatever page you are on, you can use this extension to submit that current page

See also

My other fave extension: https://github.com/sw-yx/Twitter-Links-beta

Acknowledgements

The starter code for this extension came from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/geancnifhbkbjijfkcjjdnfemppmcjmk

Migrated to v3 with https://blog.shahednasser.com/chrome-extension-tutorial-migrating-to-manifest-v3-from-v2/#from-background-scripts-to-service-workers

other helpful:

• https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/content_scripts/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9444926/chrome-extension-in-tabs-doc-dont-exist-this-chrome-tabs-getselected-but-i-s
• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/gywzLNsOMVI?pli=1
• loading js files (i gave up)
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48104433/how-to-import-es6-modules-in-content-script-for-chrome-extension
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/web_accessible_resources
• lastChangedWindow -> currentWindow