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Tell HN: Adblock rules to hide HN posts about Twitter & Musk

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For those who want some relief from the Twitter/Musk drama, here are three cosmetic filters to add to your custom uBlockOrigin / AdGuard rules:

    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bTwitter\b/):upward(tr):remove()
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bMusk\b/):upward(tr):remove()
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove()

The first two ones remove the post title if it contains Twitter and/or Musk. The third one removes the second line and the spacer.

I also hide some machine learning topics with these rules:

    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bstable\Wdiffusion\b/i):upward(tr):remove()
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bdall-e\b/i):upward(tr):remove()

I'll probably make that a configurable template for https://letsblock.it/ soon

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We also get complaints about those stories not being covered enough. The HN front page is suboptimal for nearly every individual user no matter what we do.

(This is not a criticism of the OP, nor a complaint - I just think it's interesting.)

I, for one, am glad it's not optimized for everyone. It's tough to find places with new exciting content that's adjacent to what I like, which HackerNews does exceedingly well.

I also enjoy the moderation style, which weeds out low-effort posts that plague other communities, so thanks a lot for all the hard work, Dang and team. Keep it up!

Edit: grammar

Plenty of places on reddit have a tag system so that you can filter out COVID-19 or Ukraine/Russia on world news.

Is it time to have something like that on Hacker News?

I think the short answer to that is 'no' or 'it wouldn't be HN'. At great length:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Now if we could do that universally.

Hear hear! I use Tiny Tiny RSS and make extensive use of its post filtering abilities. Post with Twitter or Musk in the title go to /dev/null

While you're in your settings, add these three rules for a quick & dirty dark mode:

    news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg))
    news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)
    news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: black)

If you use chromium based browsers, the built-in dark mode (hidden under 'chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark') is insanely good (pick "selective inversion of non-image elements") and doesn't tank performance.

Delete the app and stop buying the cars while you’re at it

Switch to viewing HN on the libera IRC network in ##hntop! Then you can write IRC scripts to filter/process the posts in any way you want...

This is great, thanks!

Oh, it might be worth adding duplicates for people who visit via hackernews.com

    hackernews.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bTwitter\b/):upward(tr):remove()
    hackernews.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bMusk\b/):upward(tr):remove()
    hackernews.com##tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove()

Wouldn't that hide this post? :p

Isn’t that perfectly ok, since now you no longer need this post?

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