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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

I'm more annoyed at the - clearly - AI based comments than the articles themselves. The articles are easy to ignore, the comments are a lot harder. In light of that I'd still love it if HN created an ignore feature, I think the community is large enough now that that makes complete sense. It would certainly improve my HN experience.

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I added muting and annotating users to my Hacker News extension:

https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news

Neat, worth a try. Thank you!

It even works for Safari, which I didn't expect, and it's free.

Thank you so much!

A little unrelated but the biggest feature I want for HN is to be able to search specifically threads and comments I've favorited / upvoted. I've liked hundreds if not thousands of articles / comments. If I could narrow down my searches to all that content I would be able to find gems of the web a lot easier.

The search is rails, were you being funny with the 'gems' bit?

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

You can already access all your upvotes in your user page, so this might be an easy patch?

I know I can access them, but I cannot search through all of them.

I had no idea about it being rails.

> In light of that I'd still love it if HN created an ignore feature

This is why I always think the HN reader apps that people make using the API are some of the stupidest things imaginable. They’re always self-described as “beautifully designed” and “clean” but never have any good features.

I would use one and pay for it if it had an ignore feature and the ability to filter out posts and threads based on specific keywords.

I have 0 interest in building one myself as I find the HN site good enough for me.

This one has been convenient for filtering posts: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered But not threads

I've never seen an app whose dev calls it "beautiful" that doesn't look like dogshit...

Earlier this year I made some good progress on creating an automated weekly (or monthly) topical digest of HN with the use case being that a person could just check if there were posts on a particular topic of interest to them.

I've paused development on it for a bit to work on something else, but let me know if you have an interest and I'll post some sample output to github.

As an ESL sometimes I do run my replies through LLM for rephrasing when trying to make certain points, I found it helps in making it more clear.

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