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News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
A greasemonkey script to hide all of the annoying iPad articles when viewing news.ycombinator.com. You can modify the regular expression in the script to hide other articles as well if you know regex.
- mike-cardwell 17y agoIt's pretty easy to modify it to hide other types of articles too if you understand regex. At the moment it hides all articles with a title matching this: /\bi-?pad\b/i
- sailormoon 17y agoAnd if there's anyone here who doesn't know regex - go and learn regex. It will take 30 minutes max and the investment in time and brain space will pay off countless times.
- frou_dh 17y agoA magical and revolutionary script at an unbelievable price.
- marcusbooster 17y agoThis is the future of computing.
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- patio11 17y agoI sympathize with the substantive criticism, but let's not pull a Reddit.
- jamesbritt 17y agoIt's a game-changer.
- cilantro 17y agoI guess I should thank you before I install the script.
- st3fan 17y agoVery cool. I changed it so that it ONLY shows iPad articles.
- Gigamo 17y agoTHANK YOU!
- malloreon 17y agoreally, guys? In less than a week it'll be back to normal. I don't understand why people are all "not in MY HACKER NEWS" - this is what people are talking about. In 3 days we'll be back to Clojure and Haskell and "rate my startup" and "I built <clone of popular site> using <new technology> in <some trivial number of hours>."
- mike-cardwell 17y ago3 days? I think even 3 months would be an optimistic claim.
- petercooper 17y agoAbout 24 hours after the launch, only 20% of the FP items mention the iPad: http://skitch.com/petercooper/n78ty/ipadreality http://skitch.com/petercooper/n78ty/ipadreality If you fancy matching a wager, I'll put down $50 to a charity of your choice that 10% or fewer of the front page items on July 4, 2010 have "iPad" in the title :-)
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- raganwald 17y agoWell, the great thing about this is that it is a welcome change from the "HN is being overrun, please stop posting/upvoting articles about X or from site Y" complaint. This makes a point by distributing a tool, that seems very hacker-ish. I'm upvoting it for the spirit even though I probably will remove it after seeing whether it works in Chrome.
- mike-cardwell 17y agoIt does. Works under GreaseKit on Safari too.
- petercooper 17y agoSome people like to put their heads in the sand and ignore things they don't like. Heck, that's why Fox News manages to maintain its entire audience share.
- chaosprophet 17y agoThere is a Greasemonkey script called 'HN Toolkit' which performs a lot of useful functions, one of which is blocking articles based on regex matches. So all you have to do would be to enter 'iPad' into the toolkit options and it'll hide all links with the word in it. Apart from this it also adds a searchYC box and has support for split view. Link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
- tung 17y agoI managed to make it work in Chrome (well, Chromium) by splicing in some support functions from another script, and tweaking a line at the bottom. http://gist.github.com/355697 http://gist.github.com/355697 To install, click the 'raw' link at the top right of the source.
- hoffmanc707 17y agoanyone have one for google reader??
- xtho 17y agoUnfortunately it doesn't automatically fetch news items from the following pages. Anyway, it's an improvement.
- stretchwithme 17y agoimagine being able to walk down the street and not see anything you don't like i think i'd be bumping into a few things :-)
- biafra 17y agoNice to know that Greasemonkey scripts like this work as a Google Chrome Extension.
- jheriko 17y agoThank you for providing this script, for all those of us too lazy to do it ourselves. :) Now if we can have one that filters the functional programming posts, and the "I'm stupid enough to think I achieved something by cloning this trivial, yet major web service with this terribly unscalable new web tool" posts. I'm all for the random tech news and bitching about DRM and software patents though. :)
- kylemathews 17y agoThe irony is this script would hide this post.
- ArturSoler 17y agoWhich would be good since it would already be installed.
- jrockway 17y agoI debated not even reading HN for the next week, because I actually had a dream about an iPad last night. Apple, that's just crossing the line :)
- kwamenum86 17y agoCan you write a more general version that excludes ALL relevant and topical submissions?
- fmeyer 17y agoCan I have this script running for the hole internet please?
- upinsmoke 17y agoI need a script to hide lame news like this one.
- mike-cardwell 17y agoI need a script to hide lame comments like this one.
- metamemetics 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240110
- ten7 17y agoDoes the script hide this item from the front page as well? Hmmmm....