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Ask HN: Can we get a "hide story" button?
Maybe an "unhide all" button in the event we hide something unintentionally?
- wingo 17y agoWould be an interesting data collection exercise, too.
- Tichy 17y agoI'm pondering a Countdown Greasemonkey script, that would hide all articles I haven't clicked on within 5 minutes. The problem is I keep coming back to procrastinate, and end up reading the irrelevant articles, too. Maybe auto-hiding them would help :-)
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- kes 17y agoI'm going to go out here on a limb, and vote no. It's not needed - that I can see - and would only serve to clutter.
- tokenadult 17y agoIt's a good thing that all the "Ask HN" threads (more generally, all the threads without external URL links) are now aggregated under the "ask" link at the top of most pages, as the feature request thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 linked to from the bottom of most pages seems to be missed by everyone these days.
- pistoriusp 17y agoWhen you click read a story on HN it kind of "hides." At least it becomes less prominent than the other stories. I often struggle trying to find links that I have read when there are a bunch of links that I haven't read.
- dood 17y agoThis would make the HN frontpage much more useful to me, and also make me see more new stories. It is pretty frustrating to keep visiting the homepage and 1/3 of it is stuff I know I have no interest in.
- CoryMathews 17y agoHide would be great. or even better a filter option. Then I could say filter-remove:ipad
- jolie 17y agoIt'd be useful to filter certain things for one's attention, as well... for email/SMS/other alerts or simply as a different tab in HN.
- Xichekolas 17y agoFilter has been done by many a GM script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 I realize that only helps if you have a browser with GM (like Firefox).
- resdirector 17y agoPerhaps HN should learn via your upvotes which articles to show you. And the same principle could be used for comments, too.
- nathanb 17y agoPerhaps what would be more useful is an RSS feed. That way you get standard newsreader features like mark-as-read and show-unread and sort-by-newest for free. Of course you don't get the sorting, but them's the breaks.
- barry-cotter 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- pg 16y agoThe reason I don't do this is that it would remove the pressure to make the content of the site be good. One reason public transport is bad in most US cities is that rich people rarely use it.