jstrieb/hackernews-button
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Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly
8 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2021-03-01 · latest 2026-07-29
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…project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button My project is somewhat different from the userscript in that mine uses Bloom filters to check…
comment by jstrieb · 2026-07-29 · in Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript -
…was a Chrome version. I was sad to see there's a technical reason you couldn't make it work :( https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/issues/1
comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-09-22 · in Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News -
…my extension only hits the API when you click the button to view the discussion. Source code here: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button Feel free to pull the Bloom filters from the "Releases" section of that repo on GitHub to use…
comment by jstrieb · 2025-09-22 · in Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News -
…browser extension that tells you if the page you're currently on has been submitted before. https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/blob/master/blo...
comment by jstrieb · 2022-07-27 · in Fleur – A bloom filter implementation in C -
…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…
comment by jstrieb · 2021-06-13 · in Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page -
…user privacy. If you normally enjoy being linked back to HN discussion, maybe you will like it! https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button
comment by jstrieb · 2021-06-13 · in Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page -
…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...
comment by gitgud · 2021-03-01 · in Show HN: Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extension -
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Show HN: Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extensionstory by jstrieb · 2021-03-01 · 15 comments