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Does HN enable keyword filters? e.g., no “AI” posts 'til this hype cycle is over

by scotuswroteus on 4/19/23, 4:20 PM with 5 comments

Do I need a client to turn off all of these links to various pictures of Sam Altman under dystopian predictions about "AI," or is there a settings option I'm missing that I can just use here in my browser?

Love yall

  • by sovok_x on 4/19/23, 6:56 PM

    If you use uBlock you can just filter out those posts with a couple of rules like I do:

      news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i):xpath(following-sibling::tr[1])

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i)

  • by PaulHoule on 4/19/23, 4:37 PM

    You need one of these

    https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

    which is motivated by this

    https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

    which was written by a legendary "True Scottsman". Lately I've been working on a smart RSS reader based on the same ideas but is much more industrialized. Of course my values are different, I am sure to upvote anything from arXiv about practical text classification... It also can do scary things to you: first I got frustrated because it couldn't tell the difference between the NFL (liked) and Premier League (hated) but the feature engineering to fix that got me studying the structure of soccer literature and before I knew it I was a soccer fan hanging on the result of every Arsenal and Man City game.

  • by surprisetalk on 4/19/23, 4:55 PM

    You can use this script to remove any keywords from HN.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050

    Instructions in comments.