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What is this hidden script doing on Hacker News?

8 pointsapawloski3 comments

I noticed today that NoScript was blocking the `causes.com` domain on Hacker News. After looking at the HTML source of news.ycombinator, I noticed this:

    <script src="http://www.causes.com/moment_of_silence.js">
            showText: true; 
            text: 'Learn more'; 
            url: 'http://causes.com/momentforsandyhook';
    </script>

Can anyone explain what this is? Is it for charity? Why is this javascript being run, but nothing indicated on HN about it?

To add to what others have already said, this is the original site that shared the code you saw:

http://www.webmomentofsilence.org/

And it was, for a brief time, discussed on HN, though not in any official capacity:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948961

Apparently it's this: http://drupal.org/node/1872074

At 9:30 am there was a 'moment of silence' modal popup that came across HN and limited access to the site. The popup linked to here[1] and appeared with the message to 'Honor the Victims of Sandy Hook', and then encouraged us to support gun violence prevention.

I too was wondering what was going on until I realized that Paul Graham was one of the supporters of the project at Causes.com.

[1] - http://www.causes.com/causes/807161-stand-with-sandy-hook/ac...

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