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Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page
- latitude 14y agoI've been using this tweak for a month now, and I converged to hiding maybe a story or two per day. It's a great stress reliever if anything else, especially during the crunch times :-)
- dfc 14y agoI would love something like this for the "new stories" page that only displayed links with 2 or more votes.
- rosser 14y agoWhat's the point of a pre-curated "new stories" page?
- dfc 14y agoWhat is the point of any information filter? I am not sure if you are being difficult or if its not as obvious as it seems to me. A lot of stories are submitted to HN everyday. I like the variety of the HN inbox but a lot of the "new stories" are redundant or just plain boring. Filtering for links with one or more upvote helps separate the wheat from the chaff.
- ninetax 14y agoBut what if everybody did that? How would any story get more than 1 vote? Somebody has to dig through the garbage to get the good stuff right?
- dfc 14y agoHow is this any different than an argument against the frontpage? What if everybody only read the front page? Addendum: (It seems tonight is be difficult night on HN. I really did not expect any responses to the rhetorical question above.) As it is I rarely read more than the first page of new stories. With a filter like this I would help curate the new stories and would contribute more to the curating process than I currently do.
- philh 14y agoThen new links would start appearing on the front page once the current content got sufficiently old. (To clarify: I am merely answering your question, not expressing an opinion.)
- lmm 14y agoI suspect going through a page of 1-point stories is a more valuable contribution than going through several pages of 2+-point stories.
- latitude 14y agoThere you go - items.each(function(){ var id = getItemId( $(this) ); - if (localStorage.getItem(id)) + if (localStorage.getItem(id) || ($(this).find('span').html() == '1 point')) hideItem( $(this) ); }); Apply to this - https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tree/master/hn https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tre...
- stbullard 14y agoCool. What I'd really like would be a way to hide stories across multiple devices!
- ninetax 14y agoI agree, I often check on work machine, phone, and home machine. I can't rely on those grayed out links anymore...
- latitude 14y agoIt would need to involve a server. I emailed Paul late last year when I first got the idea, heard nothing back, so I guess it will need to be a 3rd party server. Shouldn't be that hard, only a fork away - https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tree/master/hn https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tre...
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- vlad 14y agoInteresting idea. Last month I released a Chrome extension for Hacker News that lets you ban stories by domain name (simply choose the domain names in the options, so you don't have to click Hide every time like you do here). It also shows user profiles in their own popup, including twitter button and photo integration. Again, specific features can be configured or turned off in the options panel. New features coming soon! http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/ http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/
- jay_kyburz 14y agoSounds more useful than this. Clicking on hide seems more work than just ignoring the stories.
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- wyclif 14y agoFirst one I banned was TechCrunch. Second was Mashable. Good stuff.
- someperson 14y agoforbes.com for me
- eugenes 14y agoThank you for making it. Chrome now insists that you install extensions and userscripts from their "Web Store" so the extension doesn't work. The bookmarklet works great but can't retain state over page refreshes. This could be super useful otherwise.
- latitude 14y agoI didn't know about the Web Store requirement. I am on Firefox and I have some prehistoric version of Chrome that I use for testing Chrome stuff. If anyone is willing to repackage the extension and submit to the Chrome Store, it'd be much appreciated.
- dubin 14y agoOne workaround that I've found around the new restriction is opening the "extensions" page in Chrome and simply dragging the downloaded crx file onto it. This should prompt an installation dialog.
- Kiro 14y agoI will use this to get rid of all the App.net spam.
- Toshio 14y agoHow about pre-hiding comments from HNers who are well-known shills for tech companies? If nobody does that project, maybe someday I will.
- icebraining 14y agoGood stuff, it's certainly useful. Consider adding the Hacker News HTTPS version to the included URLs? I've done it manually and it seems to work fine. (Yes, I'm one of those weirdos ;) As an aside, I really like the click-to-play GIFs too.