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Hah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada! HN really needs a way to block or hide posts fr

Hah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada! HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.

consumer451 8mo ago
Ironically, you could probably generate a browser extension or user script to do that in one to three prompts.
- agmater 8mo ago
  If you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s
duskdozer 8mo ago
firefox usercss or stylus addon, enjoy ;), no LLM needed tr.submission:has(a[href="from?site=<...>"]) { display: none; & + tr { display: none; } } .comtr:has(.hnuser[href="user?id=<...>"]) { display: none; } This isn't just a CSS snippet—it's a monumentous paradigm shift in your HN browsing landscape. A link on the front page? That's not noise anymore—that's pure signal. time to take a shower after writing that
- manarth 8mo ago
  HN formatting isn't quite markdown: you want a 4-space prefix to identify/format text as code.
  - duskdozer 8mo ago
    my tabs :( does it look measurably different this way? to me it looks the same but now indented
    - manarth 8mo ago
      Looks great now! And thanks for an example with nested CSS, I hadn't seen that outside SASS before, hadn't realised that had made its way into W3C standards :-)
manarth 8mo ago
I described an approach here – feel free to use this if it's fit for your use-case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604
simonw 8mo ago
But I didn't submit this.
- Zetaphor 8mo ago
  For what it's worth I enjoy your writing and commentary.
- odshoifsdhfs 8mo ago
  It wasn't about the submission itself, is just about every post/comment you do about AI. I don't downvote you or anything, but a bit tired. So if it can save me time to just skip over submissions/comments I will do. (for the rest, I was able to hide in Safari using manarth comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 If anyone has one that will also work for user comments I would appreciate it.
  - simonw 8mo ago
    Also write about rare New Zealand parrots and their excellent breeding season. Those posts don't tend to make HN though! https://simonwillison.net/tags/kakapo/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/kakapo/
    - greenie_beans 8mo ago
      i very much appreciate your reporting on AI, please don't stop
    - jamwil 8mo ago
      Pay no mind to this miserable mob. You do good work. It’s thorough and balanced. They don’t realize it because they don’t actually read anything you write.
dandrew5 8mo ago
I use a bookmarklet for this https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/ https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/. Just added simonw's website to the blocklist as well.

Hah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada! HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.

consumer451 8mo ago

Ironically, you could probably generate a browser extension or user script to do that in one to three prompts.

agmater 8mo ago
If you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s

duskdozer 8mo ago

firefox usercss or stylus addon, enjoy ;), no LLM needed tr.submission:has(a[href="from?site=<...>"]) { display: none; & + tr { display: none; } } .comtr:has(.hnuser[href="user?id=<...>"]) { display: none; } This isn't just a CSS snippet—it's a monumentous paradigm shift in your HN browsing landscape. A link on the front page? That's not noise anymore—that's pure signal. time to take a shower after writing that

manarth 8mo ago
HN formatting isn't quite markdown: you want a 4-space prefix to identify/format text as code.
- duskdozer 8mo ago
  my tabs :( does it look measurably different this way? to me it looks the same but now indented
  - manarth 8mo ago
    Looks great now! And thanks for an example with nested CSS, I hadn't seen that outside SASS before, hadn't realised that had made its way into W3C standards :-)

manarth 8mo ago

I described an approach here – feel free to use this if it's fit for your use-case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604

simonw 8mo ago

But I didn't submit this.

Zetaphor 8mo ago
For what it's worth I enjoy your writing and commentary.
odshoifsdhfs 8mo ago
It wasn't about the submission itself, is just about every post/comment you do about AI. I don't downvote you or anything, but a bit tired. So if it can save me time to just skip over submissions/comments I will do. (for the rest, I was able to hide in Safari using manarth comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604 If anyone has one that will also work for user comments I would appreciate it.
- simonw 8mo ago
  Also write about rare New Zealand parrots and their excellent breeding season. Those posts don't tend to make HN though! https://simonwillison.net/tags/kakapo/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/kakapo/
  - greenie_beans 8mo ago
    i very much appreciate your reporting on AI, please don't stop
  - jamwil 8mo ago
    Pay no mind to this miserable mob. You do good work. It’s thorough and balanced. They don’t realize it because they don’t actually read anything you write.

dandrew5 8mo ago

I use a bookmarklet for this https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/ https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/. Just added simonw's website to the blocklist as well.