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Can you make a version to remove stories related to Jason Calacanis as well? I would pay for that. You could run a bayesian classification algorithm, and verify false positives/negatives by doing some backup work on Mechanical Turk. "Is this story related to Jason Calacanis? Y/N"

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I've heard this sentiment before from other places -- what's the objection to him? I'm honestly asking.

Well, one reason is the spam he sends anyone who is a member of the Hacker News group on Facebook. Thankfully I have a filter for that too....

For me personally (sharing the sentiment), it's the fact that I'd never before heard of the guy, yet used to (it's gotten a lot better) see HN get bombarded with stories that mention his name in the title (much more often than any other name).

Normally, I'd think that he personally had all those stories posted for vanity, but most of them were not exactly flattering. My next best explanation is that it was intended to build brand recognition for his name. Well, it worked: I recognized the name when I recently saw him on in TV playing Poker...

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