Remove YC “[company] is hiring” ads on HN

You can also just hit 'hide' on any post which has the benefit of also give you a new front page story.

Users flagged this.<p>I&#x27;ve removed the flags now, in keeping with the principle that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC is the story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a>

I&#x27;m honestly fine with them. These posts are the reason this site gets to exist without needing some other more nefarious monetisation. Ads can be a lot worse...

I won&#x27;t block &#x27;em, but tbh, some of the titles are real cringe, which is a good indicator for who to avoid, I guess.

I have been using the following script on uBlock Origin for some time. It&#x27;s quite an ugly selector though:<p>news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(+ tr .subtext .age:first-of-type)<p>news.ycombinator.com##tr:has(&gt; .subtext .age:first-of-type)

I am thoroughly entertained by how this elicited an emotional reaction from me. I guess I feel loyal to the site.<p>Posting this here embodies the spirit of Hacker News in a weirdly layered meta commentary.<p>I’m probably thinking too hard about it but I enjoyed this

On a sidenote: why can&#x27;t we comment on these? I have a feeling I know why, but I need to hear someone with a YC shirt on say it.

I think at the very least comments should be allowed on those posts, even if only by high karma accounts to lessen the number of trolls.

For all the people asking HN to just allow comments on their job ads, why not just fork the linked repo and add a side-channel to the job ad posts for discussion?<p>It can even use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loginwithhn.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loginwithhn.com&#x2F;</a> to guarantee the identities of users

Look, you can make and use whatever extension you like. But, posting something like this here, is a lack of respect for this website and its community. Because the visibility that these posts get are the least we can offer to this forum for what it gives us. And you can simply hide them.

I hate ads but in all fairness those posts are the most ideal kind of ad. Eg. It’s targeted by virtue of the website, not by harvested user data

That s quite the overreaction

HN exists as basically a job board with submissions in between to being people in. But considering how non invasive these ads are I really don&#x27;t see the issue. I get it, services have to be paid for somehow and I&#x27;d rather see some text ads then have my information sold

Thank you for making this. One of the worst parts about hacker news

thanks, ublock can&#x27;t easily zap them anymore.<p>Here&#x27;s an installable userscript with this promo hiding technique along with the ability to remove submission in your feed by site.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greasyfork.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;433199-hacker-news-filter-submissions-by-site" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greasyfork.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;433199-hacker-news-filter-...</a>

How about a firefox version?

Best part is &quot;Note: I do not read the orange site.&quot;

I almost wish they were in italics or something.