[vunderba]

Assuming you can run Tampermonkey, you can use my script which I've adapted to hide both the score and the username. It’s a script I personally use because I don’t like seeing my score since it just feels like a silly number, and I’d rather focus on the content than on whether my "number" goes up or down.

If you install this script in the Tampermonkey extension for Firefox/Chrome, it will automatically hide your username and your score on all HN pages.

https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/43f95d5e00af49110c41754ea...

[swingandamiss]

Thanks. This is very useful. I'm surprised at push back I always get on this topic so it's nice to see I'm not the only one. I thought tech people were concerned about privacy, but I guess not? I know discord and a few other apps offer a "streamer mode" that hides the username so you don't broadcast it to your audience if you stream, I wish more apps and sites adopted that feature.

[szszrk]

It's a crutch, anyway. The only way to have predictable results when streaming is to have an environment with only things safe to stream. Same rule like with environment variables, home directories, ai agents or whatever...

I have shown "wrong" things, like a password, a few times too many, even before streaming was a thing.

[szszrk]

Ain't Violentmonkey or Greasemonkey a safer bet nowadays?

[vunderba]

oh good call - Violentmonkey is what I meant. That's my script from when I was previously using tampermonkey but it works identically in VM.

https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey