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New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:49:20 +0000

Agreed. Times are tough. Open source is under-appreciated. People are going to crack and slip up like this. We’re only human.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:43:24 +0000

I did webdev for a long time, so yeah. If you want the story, I was looking into guix on asahi and ended up on https://www.asahi-guix.org/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Noticed a suspicious element called give-freely-root-bcjindcccaagfpapjjmafapmmgkkhgoa in the chrome inspector today.

Turns out about a month ago, the popular open source [JSON Formatter chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-formatter/bcji...) went closed source and started injecting adware into checkout pages. Also seems to be doing some geolocation tracking.

I didn't see this come up on hn, so I figured I'd sound the alarm for all the privacy-conscious folks here.

At this point, I feel like browser extension marketplaces are a failed experiment. I can just vibecode my own json pretty-printer extension and never deal with this problem again.

JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721946

Points: 169

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New comment by jkl5xx in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

jkl5xx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:38:15 +0000

Good points. What local models have you found work best for your use cases? I feel like if we get to opus 4.6 level intelligence running on local hardware, we’re in the clear for a lot of day to day use cases.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Why I love NixOS"

jkl5xx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:25:31 +0000

Definitely interested! I've reinstalled Fedora Asahi Remix several times on my old M1 after fiddling my way into a broken state. NixOS sounds like a tinkerer's dream but getting started is a bit intimidating.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

jkl5xx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:57:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Much better source.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

jkl5xx — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:14:12 +0000

This is smart and a good first step. Everyone can't be trusted to do the security dance flawlessly, though. We need sane defaults. Least privilege by default for 3rd-party code. Deno's headed in the right direction with this. But I think the solution needs to exist deeper in the stack. The surge in popularity of `curl -fsSL https://my-cool-ai-starup.ai/install.sh | bash` style installers is particularly concerning to me in this regard.

New comment by jkl5xx in "The terminal of the future"

jkl5xx — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:10:05 +0000

Totally agree with all of your comment. To solve for structured data instead of everyone writing parsers, I’ve enjoyed using nushell (not affiliated, just love the idea). https://www.nushell.sh/

It’s like powershell but not ugly and not Microsoft.

New comment by jkl5xx in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

jkl5xx — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:59:59 +0000

Huh? Zed's vim emulator is one of the best I've used in an IDE. Saying it's an afterthought feels disingenuous. I'm pretty sure some of the core zed devs are big vim enthusiasts.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Doorway effect"

jkl5xx — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:56:55 +0000

I'd never heard of this effect before but it reminds me of a feature I've aways wanted for ios which is, in order to unlock your phone, you need to type in what you're planning to do (and maybe for how long), so you can refer to that or get notified when your memory inevitably blanks and you get sidetracked.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards"

jkl5xx — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:21:48 +0000

Is there an SRS app or Anki feature that takes into account your reaction time when answering a card? I've wanted to use Anki for things like speeding up mental arithmetic but Anki doesn't seem to have a feature for measuring and plotting progress on response times.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python"

jkl5xx — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:30:29 +0000

Does the local underscore variables feature solve this? Or the approach outlined in the plots tutorial? IMO, not allowing redeclaration is more valuable than supporting this use case. A slight paradigm shift away from your example gives you the significant benefits of a reactive environment with fewer edge cases/quirks. I'd much rather have a notebook error out instead of silently overwriting a value. You save so much time debugging.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com"

jkl5xx — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:25:00 +0000

I love this! I usually use the UG iPhone app which isn't great, so if this is PWA-abble, I'd be stoked. The biggest issue I have with UG is that it can't be used offline. Often I'm out camping or something and just need a refresher on the lyrics but am thwarted by connectivity

New comment by jkl5xx in "Multi-Layered Calendars"

jkl5xx — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:57:36 +0000

Not even if it were self-hostable, open source with an MIT license?

New comment by jkl5xx in "Multi-Layered Calendars"

jkl5xx — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 04:29:02 +0000

I've had similar ideas and have tried little scripts that do this. It's a start but I think the crucial issue is the format and ui of calendar apps. It doesn't feel durable or easily searchable. And they've been seemingly stagnant for years.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Multi-Layered Calendars"

jkl5xx — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:36:58 +0000

Time and space are constants of everyone's life. You're always somewhere at some time. I've been dreaming of a centralized time & space view layer for years. Something that ingests all this data we have at our fingertips. This article gets really close to what I've imagined. Add in a map and you're able to correlate all sorts of behavior in order to understand yourself and the human condition so much better.

P.S. I'm totally open to hacking out an MVP with someone if this post resonates strongly with you.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Indeed cuts 15% of workforce, 2200 jobs"

jkl5xx — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:04:16 +0000

there were definite patterns. Certain orgs, roles, and offices seem to have been more heavily affected than others

New comment by jkl5xx in "Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists"

jkl5xx — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:21:12 +0000

I’ve naturally developed a similar syntax to this and recently dumped all my notes into NotePlan 3. It’s been one of the best task management/note taking solutions I’ve found yet (not an ad, just an enthusiastic user!) With a little bit of find-and-replace in your favorite editor, you get great UX across platforms and all the benefits of plaintext without too many additions/deviations from standard markdown.

The one big addition I’d make to this syntax is a time estimate. I use the syntax ~15m or ~2.5h etc. With the autotimebox plugin in Noteplan 3, I’m able to automatically fill in blank space on my calendar with these as events. If things come up and the day doesn’t go as planned, I just run autotimebox again and it finds a new time for them