It would be neat if the code also applied to the username in the top right so I didn't have to make a spammy comment to see what it gives me. ;)
Just replace the '.hnuser' bit with '.hnuser, #me'
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#12Wow this is really great! Noob question, but let's say I wanted to permanently load this JS in my browser? How would I achieve that? Grease monkey? Extension? Thanks :)
Should be really easy with grease monkey. I simply pasted the snippet into a new script and enabled it for this site. Works perfectly out of the box.
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#13huh. is this something we can control?
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#14Wow this is really great! Noob question, but let's say I wanted to permanently load this JS in my browser? How would I achieve that? Grease monkey? Extension? Thanks :)
There's a Wikipedia page greasemonkey-like things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript_manager
Might try this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/violentmonkey/jinj... I just installed it and it seems to work well.
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#15huh. is this something we can control?
In a way, yes. But from the way you phrased it, it sounds like you believe it is a HN feature, which it isn't. It's javascript running in your browser that dynamically generates the avatar via canvas2d and adds it wherever it finds the .hnuser class.
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#16I wonder how easily you could have slipped in an obfuscated cookie stealer
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#18huh. is this something we can control?
In a way, yes. But from the way you phrased it, it sounds like you believe it is a HN feature, which it isn't. It's javascript running in your browser that dynamically generates the avatar via canvas2d and adds it wherever it finds the .hnuser class.
ahh I see.
Thank you.
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#19Wow this is really great! Noob question, but let's say I wanted to permanently load this JS in my browser? How would I achieve that? Grease monkey? Extension? Thanks :)
Violentmonkey is a nice open source alternative to Greasemonkey.
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#20This is interesting :D
Setting it as
javascript:;void(0);