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Comment by ken | Hacker News Reader

I don't want people chasing karma here. I especially don't want to encourage it for something they can solve with one line in their user stylesheet. "Hackers", indeed.

I became so troubled by my own reaction that I added a couple lines of CSS to disable the absolute counter in the corner of every page. That number is toxic.

https://imgur.com/a/uPnW7bT

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I use it as someone-might-have-replied-to-your-comment indicator, if I see it change there's a high chance someone interacted with me and I wouldn't notice it otherwise.

There are a couple free services that will email you, which is more reliable. I’ve been using http://hnreplies.com for awhile.

I’m not saying that means you should hide your karma.

Why not share your CSS?

Not sure if it still works: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/28820-hacker-news-hide-you...

Oh, this is JavaScript. I was curious to see how ken was doing it with CSS. Thanks though. Your userscript does indeed still work.

Is this LightTable Chris Granger?

Afraid not. I'm pretty sure he has an account here though.

Edit: his username is ibdknox.

Oh okay, thanks for the response anyways!

Not sure if you caught my edit. Just making sure. His username is ibdknox.

Cheers!

Here's a CSS-only hacky version I threw together:

  #hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop {
    font-size: 0;
  }
  #hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop a {
    font-size: 10pt;
  }
  #hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop a:first-child::after {
    content: ' | ';
  }

https://github.com/kengruven/config/commit/6ccbb5b9f445c96ca...

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