Ask HN: Is HN Hacked?

[evex]

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]

Are you running any browser extensions?

[evex → tech234a]

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

[schlauerfox]

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

[LinuxBender]

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 → LinuxBender]

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

[qikInNdOutReply → evex]

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

[evex → qikInNdOutReply]

Hey, I don't have any screen-reader turned on on my chrome or my machine

[lagrange77]

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

[peanut_worm]

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]

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

[acoard → evex]

Did you find out what the issue was?

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

[evex → acoard]

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

[quickthrower2]

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

[evex → quickthrower2]

100% it is HN

[mandeepj]

Maybe a bug in Chrome

[martinflack]

Which version of Chrome and OS?

[evex → martinflack]

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