DevTab

A personal, privacy-focused developer news new tab page for Firefox. It shows developer news from GitHub, Hacker News, Lobsters, and Reddit — with no tracking, no ads, and no external backend.

What it is

DevTab is a fork of Hackertab.dev stripped down to the essentials:

• No ads or telemetry: Removed Amplitude, Sentry, Firebase, ad banners, and donation prompts.
• No external news backend: Fetches directly from the original APIs:
  • GitHub Search API
  • Hacker News Firebase API
  • Lobsters public JSON endpoint
  • Reddit public JSON endpoint
• Only 4 sources: GitHub, Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit. Everything else removed.
• No referral tracking: Removed ref=hackertab.dev query parameters.
• Firefox-only: Tailored for Firefox MV3. Chrome support removed.
• No authentication: OAuth and user accounts disabled.
• Static config: Tag list bundled locally; works offline after install.

Build

Uses npm and targets Node 18.

npm install
make package

The built extension is packaged as firefox_extension.zip.

Development

make dev

Data sources

• GitHub Trending (via Search API)
• Hacker News
• Lobsters
• Reddit

License

Apache 2.0 — See LICENSE.