From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/books/lara-love-hardin-memoir-many-lives-mama-love.html

by samclemens • 3 years ago

26 14 3 years ago

Is there a way to hide everything from nytimes.com?

masklinn• 3 years ago

I don't think HN supports any form of blacklisting natively, so... userscript? Possibly there's already relevant ones available.

You might even be able to do it via userstyles thanks to the :has selector.

boredumb2• 3 years ago

If anyone has a script to hide the new yorker, NYTimes, wapo, buzzfeed, businessinsider, telegraph, etc etc all the tabloids, i'd also love to see it!

hef19898• 3 years ago

Can we add substack? Also I manage to do that inconciously, along with medium.

Edit: Generally, WaPo and NYT are quite good. Sometimes so...

29athrowaway3• 3 years ago

Make it a service and call it Detox. I would pay for that.

adwi• 3 years ago

Sincere question, if you consider those tabloids, which sources do you trust?

The New Yorker, for instance, famously has one of the most intense fact checking operations of any publication. If it’s a matter of your personal politics disagreeing with perceived editorial bias of those, godspeed. But at least the first three you list have a lot more to lose by getting a factual statement wrong than most.

boredumb2• 3 years ago

``` document.querySelectorAll('.athing:has(a[href*="nytimes.com"]').forEach(x => { x.style.display = "none"; x.nextElementSibling.style.display = "none" }) ```

flir• 3 years ago

Filter the RSS feed?

esquevin• 3 years ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20230725041854/https://www.nytim...

ChrisMarshallNY• 3 years ago

Great story. I have heard similar, many times over, but it's unusual to have someone that can write about it.

Of course, for every person that has climbed out of the charnel pit, there's a thousand more that remain.

Miles to go, before I sleep ...

catchnear4321• 3 years ago

Hardin wrote a memoir instead ... The book comes out from Simon & Schuster on Aug. 1.

it is a fancy advertisement.

xhkkffbf• 3 years ago

It's kind of sad how the NYT art content is now largely just a bunch of cheerleader puff pieces.

gumby• 3 years ago

samclemens should have rewritten the headline to include the word "pivot" when submitting this!

I know "editorializing" the HN headline is frowned upon but surely it would be OK in this case.

From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter

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