I need a script to hide lame news like this one.
News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
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Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#42Does the script hide this item from the front page as well? Hmmmm....
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
3 days? I think even 3 months would be an optimistic claim.
About 24 hours after the launch, only 20% of the FP items mention the iPad: http://skitch.com/petercooper/n78ty/ipadreality If you fancy matching a wager, I'll put down $50 to a charity of your choice that 10% or fewer of the front page items on July 4, 2010 have "iPad" in the title :-)
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Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#44Earlier 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…
Why do you care if the rest of us read iPad articles? This makes no sense. Is it an extension of the Apple-controls-everything philosophy?
Re: News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
#45The irony is this script would hide this post.
Which would be good since it would already be installed.