Hacker News with Generative AI: Chrome Extensions

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we're Alexi and Jonas the co-founders of Autotab (https://autotab.com). Autotab is a chrome-based browser you can teach to do complex tasks, with a simple API for running them from your app or backend.

Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Artificial Intelligence, API

85 points by jonasnelle 10 hours ago | 39 comments

Popular Chrome Extension to Hide YouTube Shorts Turned Malicious (cyberinsider.com)
A Chrome extension titled “Hide YouTube Shorts,” used by 100,000 people, was recently discovered to secretly collect users' browser activity, raising serious concerns about user privacy on Google Chrome Web Store.

Chrome Extensions, Security, Privacy, Malware

6 points by semajson 8 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Convert any website into a React component (chromewebstore.google.com)

Web Development, React, Chrome Extensions, Web Scraping

326 points by alexdanilowicz 17 days ago | 62 comments

Hacker News Explorer (chromewebstore.google.com)

Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Hacker News

21 points by mahin 18 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Hacker News Explorer – Chrome extension to personalize HN stories (hackernewsexplorer.com)
Get a personalized version of the Hacker News homepage and find similar stories for any story.

Chrome Extensions, Hacker News, Personalization, Web Development

10 points by mahin 20 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I built a paragraph rewriter that runs 100% in the browser (paragraphrewrite.com)
Experience the full power of Rewrite with our upcoming Chrome extension and standalone app. Join our waiting list now!

Web Development, Tools, Chrome Extensions

12 points by orenha 26 days ago | 6 comments

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable" (chrome.com)
Understand when Manifest V2 will stop working for extensions

Chrome Extensions, Manifest V2, Web Development

552 points by freedomben 41 days ago | 472 comments

Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree (chromewebstore.google.com)

Web Development, Accessibility, Visualization, Chrome Extensions

272 points by ziolko 45 days ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet (github.com)
Chrome Bookmarklet the lets you render a full HTML page with any included css and javascript that is currently copied to your clipboard. Also works for SVG code. Useful with ChatGPT Canvas

Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Tools, ChatGPT, Code Snippets

130 points by somefries 45 days ago | 38 comments

Show HN: TabGPT – Ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude at the same time with one click (chromewebstore.google.com)

Chrome Extensions, Generative AI, Productivity Tools

5 points by hoerzu 48 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: TabGPT - Ask Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude at the Same Time in Chrome (franz101.substack.com)
Have you ever found yourself toggling between different language models, trying to figure out which one gives the best answers to your complex questions? Trust me, I've been there.

Chrome Extensions, Language Models, AI, Productivity

31 points by hoerzu 49 days ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Rocky AI – Chat with any webpage in Chrome using AI (chromewebstore.google.com)

Chrome Extensions, AI, Web Browsing, Chatbots

9 points by vijitdhingra 52 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it (chromewebstore.google.com)

Chrome Extensions, Web Development, User Experience, Accessibility

71 points by chernikovalexey 54 days ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Chrome extension to summarize HN comments using AI and LLMs (github.com/built-by-as)
FastDigest is a Chrome extension designed to summarize Hacker News comments using OpenAI's GPT-4 model.

Chrome Extensions, AI, Hacker News

8 points by asdev 57 days ago | 0 comments

The most accurate and cheapest AI for scraping (ortutay.substack.com)
AI models have the potential to make web scraping 10x easier. Instead of writing complicated code like XPath and CSS selectors, you can scrape a website with plain English. That’s the idea behind FetchFox, a Chrome extension that scrapes any website using AI.

Web Scraping, Artificial Intelligence, Chrome Extensions

20 points by marcell 57 days ago | 5 comments

Super Useful Chrome Plugins for Front-End Developers (jsdevspace.substack.com)
Front-end development can be a challenging task, requiring the right tools to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and debug efficiently.

Front-end Development, Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Productivity

47 points by javatuts 59 days ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Free Chrome extension to bring your knowledge base where your work is (helpcenter.io)
Your knowledge base is only as valuable as how easily it can be reached. Have you ever found yourself endlessly toggling between your email client and your knowledge base, hunting down information, and searching for that one article that could resolve your customer’s issue? This constant back-and-forth can be time-consuming and frustrating, pulling you away from what really matters—providing the excellent service your customers deserve.

Chrome Extensions, Knowledge Management, Productivity, Customer Service

7 points by ivanpenchev 62 days ago | 2 comments

Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly (github.com/zlwaterfield)
Scramble is an open-source Chrome extension that leverages AI to enhance your writing directly in your browser. It's designed to be a more customizable and privacy-respecting alternative to Grammarly.

Open Source, Chrome Extensions, AI, Writing Tools

416 points by zlwaterfield 64 days ago | 165 comments

PR-Agent — extension that adds AI chat to code reviews on GitHub (chromewebstore.google.com)

AI, Code Reviews, GitHub, Chrome Extensions, Software

24 points by marsh_mellow 72 days ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: Why is working with contenteditable is so hard? (ycombinator.com)
How to reliably insert text across input fields, contenteditable divs etc across various websites in the browser via a Chrome extension or a desktop app?

Web Development, JavaScript, Chrome Extensions, User Interface

10 points by raxrb 76 days ago | 4 comments

Google will disable some of its own Chrome extensions soon (ghacks.net)
If you run extensions in Google Chrome, you may one day find yourself without access to some of them. This is true for third-party extensions, but also some extensions that Google created for Chrome.

Chrome Extensions, Google Chrome, Privacy, Security

31 points by speckx 77 days ago | 2 comments

Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions (github.com/PlasmoHQ)

Chrome Extensions, Software Development, Frameworks

202 points by akiselev 92 days ago | 33 comments

Chrome and FF extension to edit any browser text field in an Emacs buffer (github.com/KarimAziev)

Chrome Extensions, Firefox Extensions, Emacs, Text Editing

14 points by ashton314 94 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: YouTube Video 2 Video Summarizer (not text summary) (chromewebstore.google.com)

YouTube, Chrome Extensions, Video Editing, AI, Summaries

16 points by 0xlogk 96 days ago | 3 comments

Chrome's Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon (arstechnica.com)