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Randomly picks 5 items from the /newest or /shownew and displays them at the top of the front page.
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Version
0.0.3
Update
December 25, 2018
Size
11.83KiB
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5 
Rating
0 ★
Manifest Version
2
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Permissions
Storage
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Random New Items in Hacker News Frontpage Extension
With the growth of HN in recent years, and too few people looking at /newest and /shownew, a lot of good posts, esp. 'Show HNs' disappear in the crowd.
This extension picks 5 (customizable) random items from /newest and /shownew (or any one, customizable), and appends them to the top of the frontpage (and it's next pages).
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This extension picks 5 (customizable) random items from /newest and /shownew (or any one, customizable), and appends them to the top of the frontpage (and it's next pages).
Source Manifest.json
{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "applications": { "gecko": { "id": "[email protected]", "strict_min_version": "42.0" } }, "content_scripts": [{ "matches": [ "https://news.ycombinator.com/*" ], "js": [ "js/content_script.js" ], "run_at": "document_start", "all_frames": true }], "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Random New Items in Hacker News Frontpage", "version": "0.0.3", "description": "Randomly picks 5 items from the /newest or /shownew and displays them at the top of the front page.", "icons": { "16": "icons/16.png", "32": "icons/32.png", "48": "icons/48.png", "128": "icons/128.png" }, "author": "Balaganesh Damodaran ", "minimum_chrome_version": "42", "offline_enabled": false, "permissions": [ "storage" ], "short_name": "HN Frontpage New", "options_page": "config/settings.html", "options_ui": { "page": "config/settings.html", "chrome_style": true }}
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