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Ask HN: Is there a HN clone that can remove NYtimes, WashPost, etc.

10 pointsjppope9 comments

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I tend to come to HN in short bursts while code is deploying or similar things, and will read headlines really quickly. This causes me to end up on NYTimes, WashPost, etc excessively because they're really good at writing catchy titles.

Does anyone know of a HN clone that can remove news outlets like the nytimes? and if that doesn't exist is that something that anyone else would like built?

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It shouldn't be another full site, or even a plugin for a (single) browser. It should simply be a Greasemonkey script that accepts a whitelist/blacklist. I'll write it up for you tonight after work ;)

I have seen this topic before. It could be a feature of the site, or a plugin. I see many sites as being fake, misleading or just plain outright dumb (buzzfeed, vox, vice). Should not be able to post a URL to these types of sites, but that is a topic for another day. I just hide the posts I dont like and move on....

I'm totally in agreement. HN should flag pay walled sites somehow so we know not to waste our time.

I do this with a bit of CSS:

/* Pay-Wall Domains */

a[href^="https://www.ft.com/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.newscientist.com/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.wsj.com/"]::after {

  color: rgba(128,0,0,0.75) !important;

  content: " $ " !important;

}

I imagine there are loads more pay-walled domains here, but these are the ones I've seen frequently...

If it's not obvious, this places a red dollar sign after any links to the listed domains.

Thank you, I had not thought of doing that.

They've actually got a policy where they encourage/approve of the copyright infringement of working around the paywalls. But they REALLY don't like people talking about it.

Apologies in advance for the non-substantive comment.

An interesting spin would be a site or grease monkey script to hide any posts to high traffic domains, leaving you with all the small bloggers etc. GitHub could be excepted.

Should be pretty straightforward to write a Chrome plugin that hides posts from domain names that you choose to blacklist.

lobste.rs

is the closest, I think. The requirements to become a posting member, are different (by referral, at least for now).

Good, if software tech is primary interest (but there much fewer discussions (and participants) in mathematics, chem, structured engineering, physics).

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