Ask HN: Is HN Hacked?

19 pointsevex3y ago17 comments

I had HN open and the chrome tab showed the audio sign, and some voice was running as if someone is talking... is HN Hacked?

17 comments

tech234a3y ago

Are you running any browser extensions?

evexOP3y ago

It happened when I'm writing you this comment. Yes I have browser extensions.

schlauerfox3y ago

Check what sites permissions are, what can send 'notifications' to you and clear them out. That is a big source of these things.

LinuxBender3y ago

Did you open the web developer console and capture the URL that is being loaded? If you happened to capture the URL's I would suggest saving the logs as plain text and emailing as an attachment to hn@ycombinator.com for dang to review.

evexOP3y ago

By the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing

qikInNdOutReply3y ago

Reader for a site element opened and read the title? Do you have the screen-reader addon added?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-reader/kgej...

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9032490

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lagrange773y ago

What was the voice saying? If it was not understandable, why?

peanut_worm3y ago

Was it some Text-to-speech feature in your browser maybe?

edit: You may be able to find the audio file in your browser cache

evexOP3y ago

UPDATE: turns out this is happening not only on HN in my browser, so definitely its from my side.

acoard3y ago

Did you find out what the issue was?

Does the issue happen when you load with 0 activated extensions?

evexOP3y ago

I disabled all my extensions except adblockers, and SponsorBlock. issue didn't happen yet.

quickthrower23y ago

Are you sure it was HN, or some similar misspelled domain?

evexOP3y ago

100% it is HN

mandeepj3y ago

Maybe a bug in Chrome

martinflack3y ago

Which version of Chrome and OS?

evexOP3y ago

Win10 & Chrome Version 105.0.5195.102 (Official Build) (32-bit)

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17 comments

tech234a3y ago

Are you running any browser extensions?

evexOP3y ago

It happened when I'm writing you this comment. Yes I have browser extensions.

schlauerfox3y ago

Check what sites permissions are, what can send 'notifications' to you and clear them out. That is a big source of these things.

LinuxBender3y ago

evexOP3y ago

By the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing

qikInNdOutReply3y ago

Reader for a site element opened and read the title? Do you have the screen-reader addon added?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-reader/kgej...

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9032490

1 more reply

lagrange773y ago

What was the voice saying? If it was not understandable, why?

peanut_worm3y ago

Was it some Text-to-speech feature in your browser maybe?

edit: You may be able to find the audio file in your browser cache

evexOP3y ago

UPDATE: turns out this is happening not only on HN in my browser, so definitely its from my side.

acoard3y ago

Did you find out what the issue was?

Does the issue happen when you load with 0 activated extensions?

evexOP3y ago

I disabled all my extensions except adblockers, and SponsorBlock. issue didn't happen yet.

quickthrower23y ago

Are you sure it was HN, or some similar misspelled domain?

evexOP3y ago

100% it is HN

mandeepj3y ago

Maybe a bug in Chrome

martinflack3y ago

Which version of Chrome and OS?

evexOP3y ago

Win10 & Chrome Version 105.0.5195.102 (Official Build) (32-bit)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse