Programming News

Aggregates the top news items from Hacker News and Reddit /r/programming

Programming News - Chrome Extension

Programming News is a Chrome extension that aggregates the top news items from Hacker News and Reddit /r/programming. It has a green, black and grey terminal theme and allows users to keep a reading list of 100 items for later viewing.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 237
-20
Rating: 3.00
(1)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2013-03-13)
Creation date: 2013-03-13
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/*
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
Size: 59.98K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Nice app. Definitely would have given it 5 or at least 4 stars if the reddit programming news was working.
by Eric Anderson, 2016-06-19
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Programming News requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: ycombinator.com, reddit.com
Risk likelihood

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Risk likelihood analysis details
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