Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#1

Post by foothebar » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 3:58 AM UTC

Is there a way to automatically filter out some entries, based on their URL? e.g. to not see that silly wikipedia article entries, or to block paywalled sites like ft.com?

Re: Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#2

Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 4:01 AM UTC

HN has a pretty straightforward API, so you could write a local (or web-based) client in any common language and add filters as you see fit.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Re: Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#3

Post by jdelman » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 4:32 AM UTC

Wikipedia entries are some of my favorite HN front page entries because it’s always a mystery to me as to which ones pop up and which don’t (I’ve submitted a few that didn’t make it). Try archive.is to bypass paywalled articles.

Re: Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#4

Post by pndy » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 5:43 AM UTC

jdelman wrote: post #3

Wikipedia entries are some of my favorite HN front page entries because it’s always a mystery to me as to which ones pop up and which don’t (I’ve submitted a few that didn’t make it). Try archive.is to bypass paywalled articles.

Granted, sometimes you'll find an interesting article that even may send you on the hyperlinks journey across the wiki but there are accounts who just pump karma on Wikipedia.

Once again, I believe that tags (like on two stop bits, https://twostopbits.com/news) and blocklists features could help filter out constantly uploaded trash or even get rid of spammers

Re: Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#5

Post by k310 » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 5:58 AM UTC

I second the idea of trying to bypass paywalls. Archive today ( https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today ) notably archive.is and similar, work reliably.

One can often bypass paywalls, nag walls, etc with Safari Reader, bypass paywalls clean extension for Firefox and Chrome (Opera uses the chrome engine) or disabling JavaScript for selected sites. I use Sheriff on iOS to do this. Other extensions will do this, I am sure.

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Twitter links are often posted here, and without an account there, you can only see tho OP.

Discussion of workarounds here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768

There is concern that nitter.net may flake.

Re: Ask HN: How to filter out HN news by URL

#6

Post by CrypticShift » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 12:14 PM UTC

There are some userscript filters you can customize : https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=hacker+news+filter

Not a filter, but this one "bypass" paywalled links https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall