Life & fun · November 30, 2023
uBlock one-liner for regex'ing HN's front page
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.
What it does
In the maker’s words, at launch
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 <table/> 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.
Does the same job
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