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Products that do what Filter HN topics you're not interested in does
Some filter rules for uBlock Origin, for example, if you don't want to see topics about Haskell: news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(Haskell) news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(Haskell)+tr news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(Haskell)+tr+tr If there's a more efficient way, surely somebody will comment...
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news.ycombinator.com##.title:has-text(/\b(Elon|Altman|OpenAI)\b/i):xpath(.. | ../following-sibling::tr[1] | ../following-sibling::tr[2]) I've played around with HN's quirky layout and settled on what I think is a correct way to filter HN's front page based on strings found in the post titles. No scripts or extensions needed. Choose your own blocklist inside the / /i regex construct.
2023
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HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…
Jul 2026 · github.com
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My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com
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2017 · github.com
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http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…
2011
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TL:DR - https://morningbrief.ai/setup Hi, HN -- We're two indie cofounders who bootstrapped a new product to scratch our own itch: there's so much great content out there, but it's hard to find it. Sites like HN serve us like-minded people, but there are many more topics in other non-HN niches. Our idea is this: an email you get once a day, filled with only top articles (posted to HN, Reddit, etc) that match your specific interests. You can specify which interests, and how many links you want. Ranked by our signal score. To start, we built an ingestion engine. In the first few…
2021
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2014 · chrome.google.com
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2014 · chrome.google.com
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2015 · search.nagrgtr.com
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I had an itch to build a weekend project, and I've noticed that a lot of Ask HNs often go unanswered, so I built AnswerHN as a simple way to see recently asked, but as yet unanswered, questions on Hacker News.
2025 · answerhn.com
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Inspired by the nytimes post "Luddites don't want your upvotes", and presumably being a Luddite myself, I have used uBlock to block my Karma score at the top of the page. I found myself (on old account) reflexively checking my Karma score and found myself responding emotionally to it. I do not like this. Positive reinforcement can be a dangerous thing! And negative reinforcement make me feel a bit crap. I'm going to post what I think is the right thing, votes be damned! However I do see the use of downvotes for getting rid of stupid comments and spam as a good thing. I see the use of…
2023
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It it always bugged me when I read or share an article, the discussion lives separately from the article. I imagined being able to add Google-Docs or Notion style comments on any website. We save a snapshot of the website and allow adding discussions that live side-by-side and directly reference parts of the article. HN articles are automatically indexed in https://cooo.link/hackernews and you can add any website, PDFs on https://cooo.link/ Built with SvelteKit, SingleFile(for archiving page), Railway. Solo dev. Would love feedback if you found it interesting!…
Mar 2026 · cool-link-web-production.up.railway.app
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2012 · hnshowcase.com
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I prepared a nice snippet that interactively sorts HN news feed on the main page https://news.ycombinator.com/news. Works on Chrome. Check this out! $$('.athing, .athing + tr').map((tr, i, all) => [tr, all[i+1]]).filter(a => a[0].className === 'athing').map(all => [all, parseInt(($$('a', all[1])[3] || {innerText:'0'}).innerText.split(' ')[0]) || -1]).sort((a,b) => a[1] - b[1]).forEach(all => $$('table.itemlist tbody')[0].prepend(all[0][1]) || $$('table.itemlist tbody')[0].prepend(all[0][0]) )
2019
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I've replaced my iPad with an Android tablet but I've run into an issue that I can't really read HN anymore - the text is tiny. Firefox does not have any useful accessibility controls so I got a chance to use uBlock filters (which I recently learned about somewhere on HN). ! hackernews zoom for android tablets news.ycombinator.com##html:style(width: 50% !important; transform: scale(1.59) !important; transform-origin: 0 0 !important;) Add this line to "My Filters" in uBlock Origin and reload HN. At first I tried scale(2) but for some reason that left me "zoomed in", so you may have to adjust…
2023
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