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Re:Show HN: IsSiteDown – Chrome extension to check current site availa... on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:49AM (#50335609)

Hi, if I can't reach a page, my first question is - is it mine or in general? So it just quickly answers if the problem on your side or not. Without switching to the new tab and opening DownDetector (though the sources are different).

For the known sites it also brings a bit additional infos, e.g. the incident description, which could help you to understand, how long to wait, for example.

Show HN: IsSiteDown – Chrome extension to check current site availability

Posted by gin_dev on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:54AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/issitedown/ifilnamlilffdbhbfmkkkajlgckimjlo

Hi HN,I have recently built a small Chrome extension, showing availability of the currently open site. Like you can't open something and want to quickly check, if it is down at all.It checks HTTP responses, DNS resolution and TLS certificate from the cloud environment.For a set of well-known sites it also provides information from official status (e.g. Cloudflare, Airbnb etc.), showing short...

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Re:Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:55AM (#48191327)

Interesting approach. But I guess most of the people who uses AI now, have already a feeling, if some text is prepared by AI or not :)

I would point here to another issue - I guess most of the newly created public texts over the internet are at least passed through AI, just to polish and simplify it. So AI-style itself might be not that bad, if there is some interesting and newly invented idea behind. So the bigger problem, from my point of view, is that it's hard to distinguish: if certain AI-generated text has a good idea behind, or it is just a AI-garbage out of top-10 search result from google to certain topic.

That brings me an idea that it could be useful to have a metric like "newness" or "novelty" in addition to marking text as AI-generated. But seems like it is totally another direction :)

Re:Show HN: Handoff – preserve coding context when agents run out of t... on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:30AM (#48191168)

That's an interesting thing... Normally if I have only one session, I just open it and say "go on" :) Claude automatically re-reads previous context and continues from stopped point.

But it is interesting, how could it work (if it works) when you have a bunch of agents, stopped simultaneously? Are all of them have stored session context? (Sorry if questions are dumb, I'm more or less beginner here)

Re:Show HN: I made a printable graph papaer templates website on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:44AM (#48177330)

Wow, looks nice! Especially just lined for kids learning languages and drums and guitar tabs for me. Thanks!

Re:Show HN: PrePrompt – rewrites vague prompts before they reach the LLM on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:57AM (#47932381)

Hi! The idea sounds interesting, this is kind of regular process. But my question would be - normally I do clarifications within dialog mode, asking AI to add needed details and correcting it to proper direction. Sometimes AI prompt extension goes wrong direction, thus I would avoid automatic use for me.

But it might be most interesting for me as an automatic calculation of "vagueness" and in this case automatically to switch to that dialog clarification mode.