Friday, February 6, 2026

New top story on Hacker News: How to effectively write quality code with AI

How to effectively write quality code with AI
8 by i5heu | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions

Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions
7 by toborrm9 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I built an automated system that tracks malicious Chrome/Edge extensions daily. The database updates automatically by monitoring chrome-stats for removed extensions and scanning security blogs. Currently tracking 1000+ known malicious extensions with extension IDs, names, and dates. I'm working on detection tools (GUI + CLI) to scan locally installed extensions against this database, but wanted to share the raw data first since maintained threat intelligence lists like this are hard to find. The automation runs 24/7 and pushes updates to GitHub. Free to use for research, integration into security tools, or whatever you need. Happy to answer questions about the scraping approach or data collection methods.