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From the source code: Noise list generate with data from https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:hacker_news https://bigquery.cloud.goog

• douche 10y ago
  Hmm, filtering out wikipedia, blogspot and wordpress would eliminate some of the more interesting content. Surprised medium isn't on here. I'm sort of done with them, signal-to-noise is just not very good.
  • niftich 10y ago
    It's actually fascinating that medium didn't make it to either list. Anecdotally, a lot of new, user-generated content originates from there, and in my mind has overtaken other blogging sides like wordpress, tumblr, etc. as the preferred blog host for newer blogs.
  • nprescott 10y ago
    > Sites with usergenerated content was manually filtered out. I read that as Wikipedia, blogspot and wordpress are not being included in "noisy domains" - which you can verify by looking at: https://github.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/blob/master/src/script.js https://github.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/blob/maste... I agree with you about Medium though, I might go through the last several months and see if there were any legitimately interesting articles I read from Medium. The extension is interesting but ultimately I think too set in stone to be generally interesting. I think it would have broader appeal if each user could edit the filtered domains by default.
    • zentiggr 10y ago
      The author does say he's aware of this, and PRs are welcome... I like the idea of being able to flag certain domains as well... although I'm rarely looking at newest anyway.
  • bryanlarsen 10y ago
    Medium posts are almost invariably opinions. They're like the editorial pages for Hacker News. If you prefer hard news or you think that opinion pieces on Hacker News are susceptible to groupthink, filtering out medium posts makes sense. OTOH, some people come to hacker news for opinion & debate, so medium posts keep getting voted up.