I need a script to hide lame news like this one.
News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
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#32really, guys? In less than a week it'll be back to normal. I don't understand why people are all "not in MY HACKER NEWS" - this is what people are talking about. In 3 days we'll be back to Clojure and Haskell and "rate my startup" and "I built using in ."
Some people like to put their heads in the sand and ignore things they don't like. Heck, that's why Fox News manages to maintain its entire audience share.
Silly analogy. If I wrote an app which removed all celebrity and sport related news from my favorite news site, leaving just politics and business, would that also be classified as me sticking my head in the sand?
Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand.
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#33I need a script to hide lame news like this one.
I need a script to hide lame comments like this one.
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#34There is a Greasemonkey script called 'HN Toolkit' which performs a lot of useful functions, one of which is blocking articles based on regex matches. So all you have to do would be to enter 'iPad' into the toolkit options and it'll hide all links with the word in it. Apart from this it also adds a searchYC box and has support for split view. Link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
I managed to make it work in Chrome (well, Chromium) by splicing in some support functions from another script, and tweaking a line at the bottom.
To install, click the 'raw' link at the top right of the source.
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people like to put their heads in the sand and ignore things they don't like. Heck, that's why Fox News manages to maintain its entire audience share.
Silly analogy. If I wrote an app which removed all celebrity and sport related news from my favorite news site, leaving just politics and business, would that also be classified as me sticking my head in the sand? Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand.
Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand.
Except you don't know you don't want to read it if you're using something as crude as looking for a string in a headline. I maintain that blindly ignoring content that has a single mention of a particular term is sticking your head in the sand (but everyone's entitled to interpret the situation as they like!).
Your fictional app would likely rely upon categorization as an indicator. On news sites, content managers determine the interest areas for a story and you can then filter them. Stories that are really important will spill over to other categories (such as, on most news sites, the "main"/general category) and stories that seem to be about one topic but are really about another should, ideally, be categorized appropriately (e.g. "iPad Designer Jonathan Ive Dies" isn't an iPad story - crude example, but just to make a point).
Filtering out items based on a string of letters in a headline (as suggested in this case) is not as elegant or robust. You might filter out "football" but still be interested if the plane carrying the Dallas Cowboys went down wiping out the team. You might filter out "health care" to avoid political discussions on HN but miss out on a story about a healthcare entrepreneur. It's as crude as early spam filtering. (And like spam filtering, could be improved by software that analyzed the content of the destination pages.. but relying on the headline alone is too flaky.)
As a temporary measure to filter out a glut of stories (as with the iPad affair), it can work, but as a mid/long term strategy, filtering by headline is crude and prone to covering up stories you might actually find interesting. The quickest and most precise filtering device out there is the one connected to your eyes.
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Silly analogy. If I wrote an app which removed all celebrity and sport related news from my favorite news site, leaving just politics and business, would that also be classified as me sticking my head in the sand? Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand.
Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand. Except you don't know you don't want to read it if you're using something as crude as looking for a string in a headline. I maintain that blindly ignoring content that has a single mention of a particular term is sticking your head in the sand (but everyone's entitled to interpret the situation as they like!). Your fictional app would likel…
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day.
There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand. Except you don't know you don't want to read it if you're using something as crude as looking for a string in a headline. I maintain that blindly ignoring content that has a single mention of a particular term is sticking your head in the sand (but everyone's entitled to interpret the situation as they like!). Your fictional app would likel…
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day. There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read…
You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently.
That's always my goal, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a cavalier sort of "efficiency." As I previously discussed, context is crucial in filtering news and a regex on headlines is a poor way to infer it.
Our discussion, though, has missed that HN is a filter already - a contextual, human-powered one. I like what HN users vote up and find it an efficient way to get tech news. If HN users frequently voted up items I was not interested in, I should not frequent it.
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Filtering out stuff you don't want to read != sticking your head in the sand. Except you don't know you don't want to read it if you're using something as crude as looking for a string in a headline. I maintain that blindly ignoring content that has a single mention of a particular term is sticking your head in the sand (but everyone's entitled to interpret the situation as they like!). Your fictional app would likel…
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day. There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read…
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Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day. There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read…
You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently. That's always my goal, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a cavalier sort of "efficiency." As I previously discussed, context is crucial in filtering news and a regex on headlines is a poor way to infer it. Our discussion, though, has missed that HN is a filter already - a contextual, human-powered one. I l…
Given a theoretical million articles, it makes perfect sense to try and remove the articles which you're least likely to be interested in so you've a higher chance of seeing the articles which you will be interested in. You can't brain filter them all, so you will always end up applying some sort of automatic filter which is not context aware.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if there's anyone here who doesn't know regex - go and learn regex. It will take 30 minutes max and the investment in time and brain space will pay off countless times.
Yeah, and then please take a theory of computation course before attempting to parse something like HTML using regexes. :)
It's only applying the regex against the articlee title, no? One would hope, at least :)