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by mark-t 6592 days ago
Maybe instead of trying to change everybody else's behavior, you could just solve the problem and move on. If you subscribe to news.yc's rss feed, write a filter. If you visit the front page, write a greasemonkey script. This is not a hard problem.

I also subscribe to steve yegge's rss feed, raganwald's, jeff atwood's, joel spolsky's, paul graham's, xkcd's, TED's, and so on. It would be ludicrous to try to get people to stop posting links from all the sites I subscribe to.
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BSeward 6592 days ago
I've put together a Yahoo Pipes mashup that filters TechCrunch stories. It's accessible at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1ML... ; you should be trivially able to look at its source and modify it to filter whatever sites you don't need. Easy and fun.

You should be able to subscribe to the RSS directly at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1MLe...

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yankees1 6592 days ago
Really wasn't trying to change anyone's behavior, just asking a question hence the "Ask YC" prefix.
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xirium 6592 days ago
> If you subscribe to news.yc's rss feed, write a filter.

There's an easier technique with no code required. Access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/ and list all of the terms that you don't want, for example, -alleyinsider -codinghorror -techcrunch ( http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... ). Then subscribe to the RSS.

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