Autobahn
Save time on Hacker News. Feedback? @autobahnapp and @vla
What is Autobahn?
Autobahn is a new Google Chrome extension for Hacker News users that provides features like story filtering by domain name, user profile popovers, and clickable links for emails and URLs. It also normalizes and makes clickable Twitter profiles, shows photos for Twitter users, and offers options to customize filtering and display settings.
Stats
Rating:
4.00
(1)
Creation date:
2012-07-03
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Size:
59.03K
URLs:
Website
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Summary
Autobahn is a new Google Chrome extension for Hacker News users by Vlad Yazhbin (@vla on Twitter). Save time on Hacker News!
Official web site: http://vlad.github.com/autobahn
Features at launch, version 0.1 (July 3):
- Ban stories by domain name
- View user profiles in a popover
- Links to comments and submissions in the popover
- E-mails and urls in profiles are clickable
- Twitter profile links and handles are normalized and clickable
- Follow button shown for twitter users
- Photo shown for twitter users
- Enable or disable story filtering in the Options panel
- Configure domains names to ban in the Options panel
Safety
Risk impact
Autobahn is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Autobahn is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.
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