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Writers at Wired must have some kind of ridiculous policy about titles. An open source "secret weapon", Docker is the "next big thing" in cloud computing. Every
by leorocky 12y ago
Writers at Wired must have some kind of ridiculous policy about titles. An open source "secret weapon", Docker is the "next big thing" in cloud computing. Every single wired title that makes it HN makes me cringe. Everyone of them. The titles are silly, dishonest, upworthy, linkbait. I'm going to write an HN extension for chrome that just auto removes wired.com submissions when I load HN, it bothers me that much.
I wrote a little chrome extension that removes Wired, the content script is:
var hn_blacklist = [
"wired.com"
];
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".comhead").each(function (i, e) {
var $e, tr;
$e = $(e);
hn_blacklist.forEach(function (domain) {
if ($e.text().indexOf(domain) !== -1) {
tr = $e.closest("tr");
tr.next().remove();
tr.remove();
}
});
});
});
You can add your own domains to it. I created a manifest.json to make this a chrome extension, included jQuery and now it works.
- simonebrunozzi 12y ago+1.
- mattgreenrocks 12y agoSo long as we're held hostage by pageviews and advertising, it will only degrade further. Expect lots more of this idiocy as Old Media copies BuzzFeed. There's lots more to scrape out of this bucket! One particularly painful example: the Weather Channel's site. Right now, it has articles such as "You Won't Believe What's Fighting Pollution" and "50 Places Straight Out of Nightmares."
- mmaunder 12y agoAgreed. Another thing that pisses me off is the editorial style: "I met Mike in a soon-to-be fashionable dive bar in the lesser known South part of town, where Pearl Jam's former masseuse mixed us a cocktail containing african dung beetle livers and wolfsbane." Ever since Po Bronson was covering the dot-com boom with stories of weed growers from Michigan launching dot-com empires in his graphic you-want-to-be-this-guy style, they haven't shifted away from it. The style has been locked down ever since Conde Nast bought the magazine at Providence Equity's yard sale in 98. Reading Wired in public is modern leprosy - thankfully neither are too contagious.
- mikezuniga 12y agoWow you just made my day +1