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I wonder how easy it would be to create a browser plugin that would hide any hacker news thread that mentions Trump. What's going on in the responses to this t

• chess93 8y ago
  Perhaps a neural network that detects politically charged posts? Sounds like a fun side project.
• deadbeef404 8y ago
  Not that hard :). Add this as a tampermonkey script for a simple version. Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('comment')).forEach(x => {if (/Trump/.test(x.innerText)) { x.innerText = 'Trumped' }})
  • lainga 8y ago
    Where'd all my bloody Bridge tutorials go?!
• u801e 8y ago
  If this was a newsgroup, then what you propose could be accomplished through a killfile. Basically, one could add a rule that would hide a post if either the subject or body contained a certain phrase, and, optionally, could hide any replies to that post.