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by bazzargh 3625 days ago
I browse here with a greasemonkey script to hide links from mainstream news sites, aggregators, etc. That cuts down to mostly just the tech content.

    var links = document.links;
    var boring = [
      'adage.com',
      'arstechnica',
      'bbc',
      'discovermagazine',
      'bloomberg',
      'bloombergview',
      'buzzfeed',
      'businessinsider',
      'californiasunday',
      'cnn',
      'csmonitor',
      'dailymail',
      'digg',
      'economist',
      'engadget',
      'esquire',
      'fastcompany',
      'forbes',
      'ft.com',
      'fortune',
      'fusion',
      'geekwire',
      'gizmodo',
      'harvard.edu',
      'huffingtonpost',
      'inc.com',
      'longreads',
      'medium',
      'mondaynote',
      'nature',
      'nautil.us',
      'newscientist',
      'newstatesman',
      'newyorker',
      'npr.org',
      'nybooks',
      'nymag',
      'nytimes',
      'pando',
      'psychologytoday',
      'qz.com',
      'reddit',
      'reuters',
      'sciencedaily',
      'scientificamerican',
      'slate',
      'techcrunch',
      'telegraph',
      'theatlantic',
      'theguardian',
      'thenation',
      'theparisreview',
      'theverge',
      'theregister',
      'time',
      'usatoday',
      'vancouversun',
      'vice',
      'vimeo',
      'vogue',
      'washingtonpost',
      'wired',
      'wsj',
      'yahoo',
      'youtube',
      'zdnet'
    ];
    matcher = new RegExp('\\b(' + (boring.join('|').replace(/\./g, '\\.')) + ')\\b');
    for (i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
      hostname = links[i].hostname.replace(/^www\./, '');
      if (hostname.match(matcher)) {
        links[i].style.setProperty('display', 'none');
        links[i].parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode('[removed]'), links[i]);
      }
    }
It's not that I wouldn't read those sites, they're just not what I'm interested in reading when I come here.
1 comments

Cool! I've been wondering if there is a feed of only the good stuff. If HN itself doesn't provide one, maybe there should be a separate site that does that filtering. I was thinking it would be manually curated, but maybe a list like yours would work as well.

Maybe you should set up such a site. All it would have to do is link to the articles and to the corresponding HN discussions.