HACKER Q&A
📣 evex

Is HN Hacked?


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 Accepted Answer ✓
Are you running any 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.

👤 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.

👤 quickthrower2
Are you sure it was HN, or some similar misspelled domain?

👤 mandeepj
Maybe a bug in Chrome

👤 martinflack
Which version of Chrome and OS?