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Ask HN: Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories?
I'm tired of flagging stories about Valley Drama oozing comments about why so-and-so is or isn't a douchebag. Obviously the readers here like this stuff, so much so that such stories get 200+ upmods. I realize my tastes no longer match HN's tastes as it has grown in user base, much as they no longer reflect proggit's tastes as it grew.
So... Is there a simple way to hide posts? Perhaps a Chrome extension or a JS bookmarklet? I'd like to participate in a subset of HN's discussions without the distraction and without wasting the mods' time by flagging stories that are obviously popular.
- gchucky 17y agoAt http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 it looks like some people wrote a Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories. Maybe you could adapt that JS to your liking?
- michael_dorfman 17y agoIs it really necesary to hide posts? Is it such a distraction to just skip over the stories that are not interesting to you? I ask because on a good day, I'm interested in maybe half of the stories on the front page, and it's always been that way for me. I thought it was the same for everyone...
- raganwald 17y agoI dunno, some stories are uninteresting, with others I irritate myself glancing at them. On reddit I use that feature regularly to hide anti-App store rants while I ignore posts asking proggit which language to learn first without hiding them.
- ximeng 17y agoOnce you've decided you're not interested in them, wouldn't it be nice to be able to hide them from the main screen and see new ones in their place that you might be interested in more?
- raganwald 17y agop.s. Sorry about the whining. I haven't finished my first coffee of the day :-(
- icey 17y agoThere's no artful way to ask this; but have you found any potential replacements for HN / Proggit yet?
- pook 17y agoA naive bookmarklet isn't what you really want. What you ideally want is a personal karma filter. A way to track your interests client-side in addition to the HN sieve. "Clickety on the Ignore button and goodbye human interest stories involving douche*" How to make one securely, though, can be a bit of a problem.
- raganwald 17y agoI'm not sure tackling the problem with machine learning is necessary. It's one of those things that (so far) doesn't happen often, but when it does there seems to be a wave of stories around the same topic. One hopes it will go away, but then a week later another pops up and I'd like to just click ignore and be done with it.
- bgraves 17y agoWe just need 24 hours of pure <insert obscure, fringe technology here> stories. I think we've used Erlang in the past (no offense to the Erlangers, obviously)
- icey 17y agoThat hasn't really solved anything in the past except making the site essentially unusable for day.
- bgraves 17y agoYeah, that's kinda the point. HN stops being the place that people come to for fluffy/inflammatory stories as we've seen for the past few days.
- icey 17y agoAnd yet, here they are again - they start right back up immediately. The reason for the first "Erlanging" was because HN was getting linked to from a more mainstream news source and the intention was not to have people stay and change the community.
- dhrasmus 17y agoYou could try using Yahoo Pipes with some keywords to filter out stories you won't be interested in. That'll create another RSS (or ATOM?) feed that you can share with others of similar taste.