At 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

At 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?