Does HN enable keyword filters? e.g., no “AI” posts 'til this hype cycle is over

3 pointsscotuswroteus2y ago5 comments

Do I need a client to turn off all of these links to various pictures of Sam Altman under dystopian predictions about "AI," or is there a settings option I'm missing that I can just use here in my browser?

Love yall

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sovok_x2y ago

If you use uBlock you can just filter out those posts with a couple of rules like I do:

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i):xpath(following-sibling::tr[1])

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i)

PaulHoule2y ago

You need one of these

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

which is motivated by this

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

which was written by a legendary "True Scottsman". Lately I've been working on a smart RSS reader based on the same ideas but is much more industrialized. Of course my values are different, I am sure to upvote anything from arXiv about practical text classification... It also can do scary things to you: first I got frustrated because it couldn't tell the difference between the NFL (liked) and Premier League (hated) but the feature engineering to fix that got me studying the structure of soccer literature and before I knew it I was a soccer fan hanging on the result of every Arsenal and Man City game.

scotuswroteusOP2y ago

thanks so very much

surprisetalk2y ago

You can use this script to remove any keywords from HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050

Instructions in comments.

scotuswroteusOP2y ago

I so love this community

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5 comments

sovok_x2y ago

If you use uBlock you can just filter out those posts with a couple of rules like I do:

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i):xpath(following-sibling::tr[1])

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i)

PaulHoule2y ago

You need one of these

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

which is motivated by this

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

scotuswroteusOP2y ago

thanks so very much

surprisetalk2y ago

You can use this script to remove any keywords from HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050

Instructions in comments.

scotuswroteusOP2y ago

I so love this community

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse