Ask HN: How can I see top HN posts Not about NSA/PRISM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846290

by porker • 13 years ago

45 9 13 years ago

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I come here for tech content and interesting discussions, not US political discussions and speculation. Are there any tools which classify/filter HN threads? I've found http://hckrnews.com/ but there's still too many NSA stories hogging the top.

ishener• 13 years ago

couldn't agree more...

sraquo• 13 years ago

Pardon the UI, it's one of my old projects, but it's useful in this case http://hnapp.com/filter/bb4abe7a00d09a35b95c6763f09c0cfb

If you want to edit the filter 1) change parameters, 2) click preview to see new filtered results, 3) click save to get a link to the new filter.

porker• 13 years ago

That's excellent, thank you!

I see nothing wrong with the UI: better a tool that works than none at all :)

gus_massa• 13 years ago

I like it, but it's vey difficult to get the link to the HN comments (hint: it's in the points /comment number). The comments are usually very helpful to understand the details I always want to see them.

seiji• 13 years ago

I've got a handy HN filter site: http://diff.biz/?remove=(nsa|prism|privacy|crunch)&only-show...

Update the removal list in the URL as necessary (or go to http://diff.biz for an old default removal list).

My site has been dead for a while (I think crawlers are crawling my site causing it to hit HN, but then HN blocks me due to over requesting), but I unblocked it today. We'll see how long it lasts.

CodeFoo• 13 years ago

Here's a bookmarklet I wrote real quick to filter/highlight keyword-based articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846934

aaronbrethorst• 13 years ago

Here's a Safari extension for blocking Bitcoin articles. You can easily modify it to block your keywords of choice. There's also a link in there to a similar Chrome extension.

https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/NoBitcoin

gadders• 13 years ago

Good idea. This place is turning into Slashdot in the Jon Katz era.

krapp• 13 years ago

Question for those who would know: if I were to try to do this with javascript, how many requests could I make to the site at a time without being auto-banned?

Ask HN: How can I see top HN posts Not about NSA/PRISM?

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