Hacker News: vitalets

Show HN: A Chrome extension to open bookmarks in a new tab by default

vitalets — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:39:18 +0000

I got tired of losing my current page every time I clicked a bookmark and forgot to Ctrl+click. So I built a Chrome extension that makes bookmarks open in a new tab by default — with just a regular left-click.

What seemed like a simple idea turned out to be surprisingly tricky to implement. Chrome doesn't provide a direct API for intercepting bookmark clicks from the bookmarks bar, so I had to get creative:

- The extension slightly rewrites the bookmark URL (using the username part of the URL scheme) - When clicked, the link redirects to a harmless ZIP file, which triggers a download and leaves the current tab untouched - The extension intercepts the download and instantly cancels it - Then it opens the original URL in a new tab

The final solution may look over-engineered — and it kind of is — but it works reliably, preserves favicons, and doesn't break UX.

You can try it here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/open-bookmarks-in-a...

Happy to hear your feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856352

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New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language"

vitalets — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:14:47 +0000

I've tried the following code:

    simplex.goto("github.com/mitchellh")
    num_contribs = simplex.extract_text("blabla")
    print(num_contribs)

It outputs all texts from the page. Is it expected? Maybe it should fail indicating element could not be found?

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI"

vitalets — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:09:07 +0000

Looks interesting. I know about the similar project - https://zerostep.com. Is it basically the same?

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vitalets — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:59:15 +0000

Hi HN! I've developed an approach that adds a button to the Playwright HTML report, enabling you to fix failing tests using AI. It works well on the Playwright site tests, but I'm curious how it will behave on other projects. Would appreciate your feedback.

What do you feel when popular GitHub project is not translated to English?

vitalets — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:27:19 +0000

When I check GitHub trending repositories [0] I often see popular projects that are not translated in English. More often they are in Chinese.

I'd like to learn what are these projects about and how can I use or support them - but I can't.

What do you feel about it? Should we encourage developers to translate?

[0] https://github.com/trending

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687608

Points: 1

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New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

vitalets — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:54:16 +0000

Unfortunately not. GitHub official newsletter only contains trending repositories across all programming languages. So you can't focus on particular language.

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

vitalets — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:03:54 +0000

> But seems that the issues have been locked and not updated since November without explanation as to why.

GitHub shows issue creation date, not last update.

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

vitalets — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:57:04 +0000

Thanks for posting this and for the comments!

Before creating this repo I've researched existing solutions and described the comparison here: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends...

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

vitalets — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:52:54 +0000

It seems you've looked at the issue open date. The updates to Swift are coming daily: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/issues/36#...

Top stable browsers can run your tests as Native ES6 Modules without Babel

vitalets — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/dailyjs/running-mocha-tests-as-native-es6-modules-in-a-browser-882373f2ecb0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905031

Points: 1

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How do you follow trends in your favorite programming language on GitHub?

vitalets — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends-on-github-63940fca63b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870135

Points: 1

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The right way to clear timeout in Promise.race?

vitalets — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:43:01 +0000

Article URL: https://jslive.com/p/3x2x9h-the-right-way-to-clear-timeout-in-promiserace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15786857

Points: 1

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A Promise-Based API for SetTimeout / ClearTimeout

vitalets — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 08:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vitalets/await-timeout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15770042

Points: 3

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Promise-based W3C WebSocket client

vitalets — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vitalets/websocket-as-promised

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456575

Points: 2

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New comment by vitalets in "JavaScript Test-Runners Benchmark: A comparison of the most popular test-runners"

vitalets — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:55:29 +0000

I agree. We should consider several criterias. The speed becomes more important for huge number of tests when execution time starts to annoy developers.

JavaScript Test-Runners Benchmark: A comparison of the most popular test-runners

vitalets — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/dailyjs/javascript-test-runners-benchmark-3a78d4117b4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646554

Points: 2

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Analyzing React’s Source Code for Type Mismatch Operations

vitalets — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/dailyjs/analyzing-reacts-source-code-for-type-mismatch-operations-9ca065e5b91

Hacker News: vitalets

Show HN: A Chrome extension to open bookmarks in a new tab by default

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language"

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI"

New comment by vitalets in "[dead]"

What do you feel when popular GitHub project is not translated to English?

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

New comment by vitalets in "Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos"

Top stable browsers can run your tests as Native ES6 Modules without Babel

How do you follow trends in your favorite programming language on GitHub?

The right way to clear timeout in Promise.race?

A Promise-Based API for SetTimeout / ClearTimeout

Promise-based W3C WebSocket client

New comment by vitalets in "JavaScript Test-Runners Benchmark: A comparison of the most popular test-runners"

JavaScript Test-Runners Benchmark: A comparison of the most popular test-runners

Analyzing React’s Source Code for Type Mismatch Operations

Runtyper – Babel plugin for runtime type checking in JavaScript