Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage

Hover wants to slap your IDE’s hover help—those little pop-up explanations—onto any webpage. It works on docs sites and even AI chats like ChatGPT and Claude, if you plug in an OpenRouter key or a compatible endpoint. It’s “Chrome Store soon,” so early adopters are sideloading. But the minute it dropped, the crowd split. One camp said the quiet part out loud: Hover detects code and sends it to an AI model to generate explanations. Cue side-eye. “So… not real documentation?” asked a skeptic, demanding links to official docs like Rust’s docs.rs. Another voice hammered the risk: bad info is worse than no info—and by worse, we mean “misleading.”

The optimistic crew called it a solid 1.0 and tossed ideas: pipe in real context with context7.com or lean on cheat-sheet classics like cht.sh. A micro-drama erupted over naming—someone insisted these are just tooltips, please and thank you. Meanwhile, jokes flew about “Clippy for coders” and tooltips on steroids. Love it or hate it, the vibe is clear: devs want instant answers, but they don’t want hallucinations. Hover’s promise: speed. The community’s demand: trust. If the next version fuses AI with authoritative sources, this could be the browser’s best party trick; if not, expect more snark than stars.