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If you really want this, it is probably better to just write a Tampermonkey script for yourself because I suspect it is unlikely to be implemented as an HN feat

• kazinator 4y ago
  Did you notice the | hide } link on stories? HN somehow associates your account with a list of submission IDs that hit hides. In the same way, some patterns associated with the account could be checked. "Does one of the entries in the user's hidden list match this story's ID" is not far off from "does one of the user's hide-patterns match this story's title or domain?"
  • brudgers 4y ago
    Yes, I use hide sometimes, particularly after Apple releases a new product. In keeping with what I imagine to be a YC philosophy, it is a simple thing that might work. In keeping with what I imagine is the site's implementation, it is a list. In keeping with HN's culture, it has limited disruption to everyone-sees-the-same-thing. I could be wrong, but custom user regex's doesn't seem to fit with these. There's also the additional processing load for running regex's on the server and the DOS surface area that would add... But you might argue the regex could be implemented on the client using javascript. And that would put us in total agreement.