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Comment by romaniitedomum | Hacker News Reader

Same way as always. Open the page, glance down it to see if there's anything that interests me, hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from. Lather, rinse, repeat.

But I'm guessing you have more of a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) kind of problem, which admittedly I don't have. However, you could look at something using RSS, maybe in combination with an agent told to find and show articles based on some heuristics.

Personally, I'm OK with missing something. If it's good, I figure it'll surface somewhere else and impinge on my notice sooner or later.

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> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

You could convert this into content blocker filters for the likes of uBlock Origin:

  news.ycombinator.com##.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"]),.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"])+tr,.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"])+tr+.spacer

(You can append `:style(color:orange)` or such to apply a different style instead of hiding, if you want to be able to hit the hide link in order to get a new thirtieth item—though you could automate that by writing a user script instead.)

Or user stylesheets (I use Stylus in Firefox to manage such things):

  .submission:has([href="from?site=example.com"]) {
      &, & + tr, & + tr + .spacer {
          display: none;
      }
  }

(I showed two different selectors: [href^="https://example.com/"] will match the complete origin, [href="from?site=example.com"] will match the domain as presented by HN, including any subdomains.)

I miss the greasemonkey days, but copying scripts between machines became annoying, and I don't think it ever worked on mobile.

Works on Firefox for Android.

> Same way as always.

For me same as always also.

My "same way" is the HN RSS feed. RSS is the best.

Goes straight to my email and I skim the headlines, click on the ones that seem interesting.

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

I don't thing 'hide' applies to the domain of the post, but only the post itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=What%20do%...

I imagine OP knows but uses the domain to hide the article based on his own instinct/history with said domain.

Exactly so.

It would actually be nice to be able to hide based on domains

Or even title keyword. Block [AI, Claude, Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen] and enjoy a clean, pleasant HN.

I’ve implemented something like that at https://hn-ai.org/.

It at least filters out some of the slop articles, making it easier to find the potentially interesting stories.

2 of the top 3 posts are currently AI-topical. Might need to expand the heuristic

That said, I like it, and have bookmarked.

You’re right, I need to do that. It would create a glitch in the historical graph, but still, there’s too much slop getting through.

A tool I wrote can do this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hacker-news-reader

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

I thought hide just hid that particular entry. Have I been wrong all this time?

It just hides that particular entry. What I meant to say is, I see certain domains and always hit hide on them, because that's a place I don't want to see anything from.

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

Ive been on hn with one account or another for close to a decade now. I have never used that feature nor did I think it would permanently hide the domains entirely. Super good to know though.

It doesn’t, it only hide the post itself

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