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Filter HN - Exclude All Bitcoin Articles. Made with AngularJS
- eof 13y agoI like how this submission filters itself
- petercooper 13y agoThis mechanism would make a superb Chrome extension for the regular site. (Or, heck, any site with long lists of links.)
- citricsquid 13y agoTry this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
- Trezoid 13y agoOr better yet, a simple userscript. That way a single script could be run on all modern browsers with a couple of small tweaks required for the big 3, and easily installable out of the box on Opera and Safari.
- dgesang 13y agoIndeed, many extension could be implemented as simple userscripts and as such could reach a much wider audience.
- petercooper 13y agoNot a bad idea in the geekier circles, but the idea of installing something that supports userscripts and then installing userscripts isn't an obvious step for many users, whereas Google pushes Chrome apps and extensions quite heavily as an easy thing to play with.
- DanBC 13y agoWith user-supplied words to filter too. Or personal scoring and coloured thread titles to suit. This isn't about the HN ranking mechanism, it's about finding and highlights article titles that might be interesting to the user.
- petercooper 13y agoIn my case it really is about filtering, though, rather than discovery. I like seeing things I wouldn't specifically choose to see, but I know if it has 'bitcoin', 'snowden' or 'CIA' in it, it's almost never going to appeal to me. But yeah, if it was generic enough, such a thing could be used to highlight or hide, appealing to both approaches.
- bachback 13y agoIt's 1994 on HN: Exclude all Web articles. Can't here it anymore.
- heydenberk 13y agoThis is not silly in the way that you think it is silly.
- bachback 13y agohuh?
- salamandratech 13y agoRage.
- sz4kerto 13y agoCan you extend this with filtering all AngularJS articles as well? :)
- rschmitty 13y agohttp://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=AngularJS http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=AngularJS didnt spend much time but appears to be cookie based as this didnt work just by changing the preset in the url but opening in a different browser seemed to have taken the filter
- cma 13y agoAnd anything remade in pure CSS3.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoWell done sir. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/well_done_sir.gif http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/well_...
- TomGullen 13y agoHow do I filter all these posts complaining about bitcoin?
- visakanv 13y agoHow do I filter posts about filtering posts?
- pacofvf 13y agohttp://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=Filter%20HN http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=Filter%20HN
- zootm 13y agoFiltering out "bitcoin" should do the job.
- ceol 13y agoIt's really interesting to click through the people who post these kinds of comments and see they only ever post in Bitcoin-related threads. Aside: How much of your savings did you dump into it?
- TomGullen 13y ago10% at the time
- itayadler 13y agoIt's either not case insensitive or matching parts of words, as it didn't filter this: Bitcoin?s roller-coaster ride gets wilder as Wall Street, China climb on (arstechnica.com)
- waterlesscloud 13y agoThere are two bitcoin articles on the front page at the moment. One is an explanation of the protocol. The other is this one.
- rschmitty 13y agoWhere have you been the last 2 weeks?
- anthracis417 13y agoCan I still complain?
- jamesaguilar 13y agoX is not a problem at some fixed instant in time, therefore it is never a problem, right?
- laichzeit0 13y agoSo the upvote system is broken then? The users on this site upvoting the articles to the frontpage are not upvoting articles they actually care to read about?
- Kequc 13y agoBitcoin'ers upvote everything mentioning bitcoin because they have a vested interest in people buying bitcoin.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoYeah, that'd be a perfectly reasonable claim. Upvotes (/flags) are a community measure and it's possible for the dynamics of the community, as moderated by the software, to result in the presence a bunch of Bitcoin articles which are only of interest to a subset of the readers, and a recurring annoyance to others. So why not have filters? Heck, if all were right in the world, we wouldn't have Hacker News as a website per se, you'd have a Hacker News as some sort of "news group" cough on a standardized protocol, and you'd have client software that could filter that sort of thing for you automagically. :P
- DanBC 13y agoYes, the upvote system is broken. 1) Only about 10% of HN readers have an account, thus many people do not have any voting or flagging rights at all. 2) The difference between making the front page or not making the front page is a few votes in a short time frame. A tiny number of people interested in a topic can easily skew that. 3) Not enough people visit new to upvote great content, comment on good and great content, and flag things that don't belong here. 4) Not enough people down vote comments that don't belong here. Allowing people to filter articles makes HN a nicer place for those people. It's concerning that they may stop flagging articles that really don't belong here. Some of the Snowden articles were just pure political nonsense, with heated pointless threads.
- lemonberry 13y agoPoint 3 struck home. I've changed my textexpander snippet to take me to newest rather than the main page. Though I never get peeved at what is on the main page, I now wonder what I've been missing. Thanks.
- shubhamjain 13y agoA quick hack made in 10 minutes. javascript: elements = document.getElementsByTagName("tr"); for( i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if( elements[i].innerHTML.match(/(bitcoin|angularJS)/i) !== null && elements[i].innerHTML.length < 5000) { elements[i].remove(); elements[i++].remove()}}; The "5000" length check is to avoid the upper nest of "tr".
- lclarkmichalek 13y agoI don't think that will deal with the weekly "BTC - $x" stories, unfortunately
- shubhamjain 13y agoYou can add more keywords in the match function if thats what you meant. Anything more sophisticated should be coded as an extension / userscript rather than a bookmarklet.
- nslocum 13y agoif only there were a filter for all the articles glorifying Snowden.
- ot 13y agoSafari extension from almost 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271 Clearly we didn't know what we were going into.
- overgard 13y agoIf only there was a filter for concern trolling.
- keeran 13y agoA community built around people making money on/from tech continually whining about content on the future of money in tech.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoObserving that Hacker News is using a collaborative filter and that bitcoin articles frequent the front page, one might be forgiven for concluding that bitcoin articles might be popular with the audience.
- MattLaroche 13y agoThe audience is heterogenous though. The poster wasn't hand-wringing and complaining "There shouldn't be Bitcoin articles on HN", but instead took initiative and created his or her own filter to have a HN article list closer to what he or she wanted.
- tomasien 13y agoMy buddy just made this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfoikaeccipmgfnagffkdjnbjp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfo... to do the same for Upworthy and Facebok. It's reifying my desire to finish a Chrome extension I made a while ago that will blog any post on any "social" websites (HN would be one) that have certain keywords for certain periods of time. That way, you could block live trends like "The Bachelor" you don't care about, or permanently block mentions of things you never want to see, or just temporarily "unfollow" someone. I built the blocking but not the timing. ANYWAY ENOUGH ABOUT ME this is cool. I like Bitcoin, will not use, but I'm 100% on board.
- bernardom 13y agoIs that headline generator from last week on the loose again?
- Jagat 13y agoHere's a similar 3 year old HN submission - "Greasemoney script to exclude all bitcoin articles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753
- baddox 13y agoSomeone should generalize this to a filter which removes articles discussing any of the n most important technological advances of our time. Why just make it for n=1?
- bdcravens 13y agoCan I alter it to filter "San Francisco"?
- JustinAiken 13y agoA reverse-filter would be nice too - I'd like to see only Bitcoin articles, as the ones posted here tend to be much more interesting than ones that hit r/bitcoin
- PeterWhittaker 13y agoWould that I could upvote this more than once, this is clever and cool and functional. A nicely scratched itch. +many.
- yashg 13y agoPlease add regex filtering for "X in Y lines of Z"