Ask HN: Is HN Hacked?

19 points by evex 3 years ago | 17 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?

tech234a 3 years ago |

Are you running any browser extensions?

evex 3 years ago | |

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

schlauerfox 3 years ago |

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

LinuxBender 3 years 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.

evex 3 years ago | |

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

qikInNdOutReply 3 years 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

lagrange77 3 years ago |

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

peanut_worm 3 years 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

evex 3 years ago |

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

acoard 3 years ago | |

Did you find out what the issue was?

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

evex 3 years ago | | |

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

quickthrower2 3 years ago |

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

evex 3 years ago | |

100% it is HN

mandeepj 3 years ago |

Maybe a bug in Chrome

martinflack 3 years ago |

Which version of Chrome and OS?

evex 3 years ago | |

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