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Show HN: Hide all mentions of Wordle in Hacker News feeds

76 points by tucnak 5y ago

WesSouza 5y ago
Normille 5y ago
I hear ya, bro'! Do you happen to know how you would you implement something like this, but have it read in a list of banned words/domains, rather than just having one hard-wired keyword? I've long wanted something like Google Hit Hider by Domain[0], but for HN, so I can block some of the crap that gets posted here. I've managed to knock together something really clunky in Go that sort of does what I want but needs me to run it as a CLI app. Id love to have the convenience of a Grease/Tamper-monkey script that does this, but JS is not my strong point, so I wouldn't know where to start. [0] https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
bondarchuk 5y ago
All mentions of what?
- _Microft 5y ago
  W0rdl3
  - skilled 5y ago
    And thus, a new invention was born.
mihaic 5y ago
Thank you. I don't think I was the only one that had reached Wordle fatigue. Hoping not to overgeneralize, but it's a bit sad seeing so many bright minds engaged in dissecting and remixing something so plain, just because it's another hype wave for which we can all apply the specific problem solving skills we know. The only change I'd perhaps recommend would be not hiding this thread itself.
- onpensionsterm 5y ago
  It is a shame. It's a game that's trivially optimisable but requires you to avoid doing so to have fun. It's a game that already existed, so must have become popular for another reason: because they came up for a way for people to brag about their intelligence in a socially acceptable way. Ironically, it's disappointing to see how poor the vocabulary of some English-first-language speakers is & how readily they blame the game for using quite common words that they don't know.
  - dymk 5y ago
    I’ve written sudoku solvers yet sudoku remains fun. As for the rest of your comment, you’re oddly antagonistic towards a group of strangers you know nothing about.
    - onpensionsterm 5y ago
      A sudoku solver isn't similar at all.
- jahnu 5y ago
  I don't find it sad at all. I find it fun and enjoyable that people have seen the power of a good simple fun game and that it wasn't hard to make something good and even better it still required more thinking about the gameplay than the implementation. Many lessons to be learned here for any hacker, imo.
ecf 5y ago
I got downvoted by HN people for asking if something like this existed. Thank you!
ergonaught 5y ago
Exploring the apparent subjective experience of "seeing Wordle too frequently in Hacker News feeds" is probably a more profitable pursuit.
rvz 5y ago
Like all fads and the ones before it (Flappy Bird, 2048, Temple Run, etc), they die and the world moves on to the next one to get addicted to. So its unsurprising to see the attack of the clones spam, which everyone knows that it is impossible to beat the original.
baal80spam 5y ago
Thanks for that. I don't understand this phenomenon when Limbo and Master Mind already exist for many years. It's getting mildly annoying.
the-dude 5y ago
I just like https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt better. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Do not forget.
kilroy123 5y ago
I was literally thinking earlier today, that I need this.
mykode 5y ago
Pretty ironic how this post would also be hidden by this script
- skizm 5y ago
  As intended since you wouldn't need to see this post.
ushakov 5y ago
is there a AdGuard version of this?
werber 5y ago
And I’m just sitting here wondering the details of the devs low 7 figure deal still
agilob 5y ago
news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(Wordle):upward(1) in µblock rules edit: still can be improved, it leaves box with number of comments
the__alchemist 5y ago
Wordle: The topic my mom and Hacker news have in common.
rognjen 5y ago
Userscript is nice but I was hoping for a way to filter the RSS feed. Not just for Wordle but for some other things as well.
- stevekemp 5y ago
  I guess there are lots of things that consume RSS, but you might see if you can add filtering there. For example I wrote a rss2email application, and I added the ability to ignore entries based on regexp-matching against their titles, or bodies. I imagine many RSS projects have similar facilities, and if not would welcome contributes to add such a thing.
kgwxd 5y ago
Several years ago, I was sick of hitting pay/signup walls for sites I already knew I was never going to join but kept clicking because I either didn't know where the link was going or I just forgot that site was walled off. I made an FF add-on that applies a specified style to any elements with attributes matching a given regular expression. It can do text content matching too but, as it's currently programmed, it tends to apply to an element too far up the tree. It was intended for personal use but, if anyone is interested, it's a public github repo and, because Mozilla requires an add-on to be registered to be usable in any practical sense, it is up on the add-on site. There's no proper UI, the only interface is through preferences and it's just a textarea where the JSON config goes (example given below the textarea). Source: https://github.com/7w0/ssure https://github.com/7w0/ssure (the interesting stuff is in https://github.com/7w0/ssure/blob/master/content/content.js https://github.com/7w0/ssure/blob/master/content/content.js) Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/
timbit42 5y ago
My RSS feed reader has this built in.
johnea 5y ago
When I saw "HN news feed" I was hoping it was a hexchat script... Anybody got something like this for ##hntop?

76 points by tucnak 5y ago

I hear ya, bro'! Do you happen to know how you would you implement something like this, but have it read in a list of banned words/domains, rather than just having one hard-wired keyword? I've long wanted something like Google Hit Hider by Domain[0], but for HN, so I can block some of the crap that gets posted here. I've managed to knock together something really clunky in Go that sort of does what I want but needs me to run it as a CLI app. Id love to have the convenience of a Grease/Tamper-monkey script that does this, but JS is not my strong point, so I wouldn't know where to start. [0] https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

bondarchuk 5y ago

All mentions of what?

_Microft 5y ago
W0rdl3
- skilled 5y ago
  And thus, a new invention was born.

mihaic 5y ago

Thank you. I don't think I was the only one that had reached Wordle fatigue. Hoping not to overgeneralize, but it's a bit sad seeing so many bright minds engaged in dissecting and remixing something so plain, just because it's another hype wave for which we can all apply the specific problem solving skills we know. The only change I'd perhaps recommend would be not hiding this thread itself.

onpensionsterm 5y ago
It is a shame. It's a game that's trivially optimisable but requires you to avoid doing so to have fun. It's a game that already existed, so must have become popular for another reason: because they came up for a way for people to brag about their intelligence in a socially acceptable way. Ironically, it's disappointing to see how poor the vocabulary of some English-first-language speakers is & how readily they blame the game for using quite common words that they don't know.
- dymk 5y ago
  I’ve written sudoku solvers yet sudoku remains fun. As for the rest of your comment, you’re oddly antagonistic towards a group of strangers you know nothing about.
  - onpensionsterm 5y ago
    A sudoku solver isn't similar at all.
jahnu 5y ago
I don't find it sad at all. I find it fun and enjoyable that people have seen the power of a good simple fun game and that it wasn't hard to make something good and even better it still required more thinking about the gameplay than the implementation. Many lessons to be learned here for any hacker, imo.

ecf 5y ago

I got downvoted by HN people for asking if something like this existed. Thank you!

ergonaught 5y ago

Exploring the apparent subjective experience of "seeing Wordle too frequently in Hacker News feeds" is probably a more profitable pursuit.

rvz 5y ago

Like all fads and the ones before it (Flappy Bird, 2048, Temple Run, etc), they die and the world moves on to the next one to get addicted to. So its unsurprising to see the attack of the clones spam, which everyone knows that it is impossible to beat the original.

baal80spam 5y ago

Thanks for that. I don't understand this phenomenon when Limbo and Master Mind already exist for many years. It's getting mildly annoying.

the-dude 5y ago

I just like https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt better. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Do not forget.

kilroy123 5y ago

I was literally thinking earlier today, that I need this.

mykode 5y ago

Pretty ironic how this post would also be hidden by this script

skizm 5y ago
As intended since you wouldn't need to see this post.

ushakov 5y ago

is there a AdGuard version of this?

werber 5y ago

And I’m just sitting here wondering the details of the devs low 7 figure deal still

agilob 5y ago

news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(Wordle):upward(1) in µblock rules edit: still can be improved, it leaves box with number of comments

the__alchemist 5y ago

Wordle: The topic my mom and Hacker news have in common.

rognjen 5y ago

Userscript is nice but I was hoping for a way to filter the RSS feed. Not just for Wordle but for some other things as well.

stevekemp 5y ago
I guess there are lots of things that consume RSS, but you might see if you can add filtering there. For example I wrote a rss2email application, and I added the ability to ignore entries based on regexp-matching against their titles, or bodies. I imagine many RSS projects have similar facilities, and if not would welcome contributes to add such a thing.

kgwxd 5y ago

Several years ago, I was sick of hitting pay/signup walls for sites I already knew I was never going to join but kept clicking because I either didn't know where the link was going or I just forgot that site was walled off. I made an FF add-on that applies a specified style to any elements with attributes matching a given regular expression. It can do text content matching too but, as it's currently programmed, it tends to apply to an element too far up the tree. It was intended for personal use but, if anyone is interested, it's a public github repo and, because Mozilla requires an add-on to be registered to be usable in any practical sense, it is up on the add-on site. There's no proper UI, the only interface is through preferences and it's just a textarea where the JSON config goes (example given below the textarea). Source: https://github.com/7w0/ssure https://github.com/7w0/ssure (the interesting stuff is in https://github.com/7w0/ssure/blob/master/content/content.js https://github.com/7w0/ssure/blob/master/content/content.js) Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/

timbit42 5y ago

My RSS feed reader has this built in.

johnea 5y ago

When I saw "HN news feed" I was hoping it was a hexchat script... Anybody got something like this for ##hntop?