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?
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#2Did 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.
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#3Did 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.
By the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing
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#4Are you running any browser extensions?
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#5Maybe a bug in Chrome
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#6Check what sites permissions are, what can send 'notifications' to you and clear them out. That is a big source of these things.
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#7Was it some Text-to-speech feature in your browser maybe?
edit: You may be able to find the audio file in your browser cache
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#8What was the voice saying? If it was not understandable, why?
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#9Did 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.
By the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing
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...
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#10Which version of Chrome and OS?