Safari extension from almost 3 years ago:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271</a><p>Clearly we didn't know what we were going into.
A quick hack made in 10 minutes.<p><pre><code> 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()}};
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The "5000" length check is to avoid the upper nest of "tr".
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?
Here's a similar 3 year old HN submission - "Greasemoney script to exclude all bitcoin articles" <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753</a>
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.
My buddy just made this <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfoikaeccipmgfnagffkdjnbjp" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfo...</a> to do the same for Upworthy and Facebok.<p>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.<p>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.<p>I built the blocking but not the timing.<p>ANYWAY ENOUGH ABOUT ME this is cool. I like Bitcoin, will not use, but I'm 100% on board.
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
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?
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)