Filter HN - Exclude All Bitcoin Articles. Made with AngularJS

http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=bitcoin

by ishener • 13 years ago

63 53 13 years ago

hn-filter.appspot.com

petercooper3• 13 years ago

This mechanism would make a superb Chrome extension for the regular site. (Or, heck, any site with long lists of links.)

citricsquid• 13 years ago

Try this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

Trezoid• 13 years ago

Or better yet, a simple userscript. That way a single script could be run on all modern browsers with a couple of small tweaks required for the big 3, and easily installable out of the box on Opera and Safari.

dgesang• 13 years ago

Indeed, many extension could be implemented as simple userscripts and as such could reach a much wider audience.

DanBC2• 13 years ago

With user-supplied words to filter too.

Or personal scoring and coloured thread titles to suit. This isn't about the HN ranking mechanism, it's about finding and highlights article titles that might be interesting to the user.

petercooper3• 13 years ago

In my case it really is about filtering, though, rather than discovery.

I like seeing things I wouldn't specifically choose to see, but I know if it has 'bitcoin', 'snowden' or 'CIA' in it, it's almost never going to appeal to me.

But yeah, if it was generic enough, such a thing could be used to highlight or hide, appealing to both approaches.

bachback2• 13 years ago

It's 1994 on HN: Exclude all Web articles. Can't here it anymore.

heydenberk• 13 years ago

This is not silly in the way that you think it is silly.

bachback2• 13 years ago

huh?

salamandratech• 13 years ago

Rage.

sz4kerto• 13 years ago

Can you extend this with filtering all AngularJS articles as well? :)

rschmitty2• 13 years ago

http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=AngularJS didnt spend much time but appears to be cookie based as this didnt work just by changing the preset in the url but opening in a different browser seemed to have taken the filter

cma• 13 years ago

And anything remade in pure CSS3.

nickthemagicman• 13 years ago

Well done sir.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/well_...

TomGullen2• 13 years ago

How do I filter all these posts complaining about bitcoin?

visakanv• 13 years ago

How do I filter posts about filtering posts?

pacofvf• 13 years ago

http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=Filter%20HN

zootm• 13 years ago

Filtering out "bitcoin" should do the job.

ceol• 13 years ago

It's really interesting to click through the people who post these kinds of comments and see they only ever post in Bitcoin-related threads.

Aside: How much of your savings did you dump into it?

TomGullen2• 13 years ago

10% at the time

itayadler• 13 years ago

It's either not case insensitive or matching parts of words, as it didn't filter this: Bitcoin?s roller-coaster ride gets wilder as Wall Street, China climb on (arstechnica.com)

waterlesscloud2• 13 years ago

There are two bitcoin articles on the front page at the moment.

One is an explanation of the protocol.

The other is this one.

rschmitty2• 13 years ago

Where have you been the last 2 weeks?

anthracis417• 13 years ago

Can I still complain?

jamesaguilar• 13 years ago

X is not a problem at some fixed instant in time, therefore it is never a problem, right?

laichzeit0• 13 years ago

So the upvote system is broken then? The users on this site upvoting the articles to the frontpage are not upvoting articles they actually care to read about?

Kequc• 13 years ago

Bitcoin'ers upvote everything mentioning bitcoin because they have a vested interest in people buying bitcoin.

fennecfoxen• 13 years ago

Yeah, that'd be a perfectly reasonable claim. Upvotes (/flags) are a community measure and it's possible for the dynamics of the community, as moderated by the software, to result in the presence a bunch of Bitcoin articles which are only of interest to a subset of the readers, and a recurring annoyance to others. So why not have filters?

Heck, if all were right in the world, we wouldn't have Hacker News as a website per se, you'd have a Hacker News as some sort of "news group" cough on a standardized protocol, and you'd have client software that could filter that sort of thing for you automagically. :P

DanBC2• 13 years ago

Yes, the upvote system is broken.

1) Only about 10% of HN readers have an account, thus many people do not have any voting or flagging rights at all.

2) The difference between making the front page or not making the front page is a few votes in a short time frame. A tiny number of people interested in a topic can easily skew that.

3) Not enough people visit new to upvote great content, comment on good and great content, and flag things that don't belong here.

4) Not enough people down vote comments that don't belong here.

Allowing people to filter articles makes HN a nicer place for those people. It's concerning that they may stop flagging articles that really don't belong here. Some of the Snowden articles were just pure political nonsense, with heated pointless threads.

lemonberry• 13 years ago

Point 3 struck home. I've changed my textexpander snippet to take me to newest rather than the main page. Though I never get peeved at what is on the main page, I now wonder what I've been missing. Thanks.

waterlesscloud2• 13 years ago

If they're not voting, then they don't really care much about what stories they see.

It's not like creating an account is a laborious process on this site.

davedx• 13 years ago

Ridiculous.

The heart of your complaint is that you don't agree what people are upvoting is 'good and great content' - either from not registering to vote, or by voting for things you don't like.

That is completely subjective and does not mean the 'system is broken'.

shubhamjain2• 13 years ago

A quick hack made in 10 minutes.

  javascript: elements = document.getElementsByTagName("tr"); for( i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if( elements[i].innerHTML.match(/(bitcoin|angularJS)/i) !== null &&  elements[i].innerHTML.length < 5000) { elements[i].remove(); elements[i++].remove()}};

The "5000" length check is to avoid the upper nest of "tr".

lclarkmichalek• 13 years ago

I don't think that will deal with the weekly "BTC - $x" stories, unfortunately

shubhamjain2• 13 years ago

You can add more keywords in the match function if thats what you meant. Anything more sophisticated should be coded as an extension / userscript rather than a bookmarklet.

nslocum• 13 years ago

if only there were a filter for all the articles glorifying Snowden.

ot• 13 years ago

Safari extension from almost 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271

Clearly we didn't know what we were going into.

overgard• 13 years ago

If only there was a filter for concern trolling.

keeran• 13 years ago

A community built around people making money on/from tech continually whining about content on the future of money in tech.

bayesianhorse• 13 years ago

Observing that Hacker News is using a collaborative filter and that bitcoin articles frequent the front page, one might be forgiven for concluding that bitcoin articles might be popular with the audience.

MattLaroche• 13 years ago

The audience is heterogenous though.

The poster wasn't hand-wringing and complaining "There shouldn't be Bitcoin articles on HN", but instead took initiative and created his or her own filter to have a HN article list closer to what he or she wanted.

tomasien• 13 years ago

My buddy just made this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfo... to do the same for Upworthy and Facebok.

It's reifying my desire to finish a Chrome extension I made a while ago that will blog any post on any "social" websites (HN would be one) that have certain keywords for certain periods of time.

That way, you could block live trends like "The Bachelor" you don't care about, or permanently block mentions of things you never want to see, or just temporarily "unfollow" someone.

I built the blocking but not the timing.

ANYWAY ENOUGH ABOUT ME this is cool. I like Bitcoin, will not use, but I'm 100% on board.

bernardom• 13 years ago

Is that headline generator from last week on the loose again?

Jagat• 13 years ago

Here's a similar 3 year old HN submission - "Greasemoney script to exclude all bitcoin articles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753

baddox• 13 years ago

Someone should generalize this to a filter which removes articles discussing any of the n most important technological advances of our time. Why just make it for n=1?

eof• 13 years ago

I like how this submission filters itself

bdcravens• 13 years ago

Can I alter it to filter "San Francisco"?

JustinAiken• 13 years ago

A reverse-filter would be nice too - I'd like to see only Bitcoin articles, as the ones posted here tend to be much more interesting than ones that hit r/bitcoin

PeterWhittaker• 13 years ago

Would that I could upvote this more than once, this is clever and cool and functional.

A nicely scratched itch. +many.

yashg• 13 years ago

Please add regex filtering for "X in Y lines of Z"

Filter HN - Exclude All Bitcoin Articles. Made with AngularJS

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