Is there a way to automatically filter out some entries, based on their URL?
e.g. to not see that silly wikipedia article entries, or to block paywalled sites like ft.com?
HN has a pretty straightforward API, so you could write a local (or web-based) client in any common language and add filters as you see fit.<p><a href="https://github.com/HackerNews/API">https://github.com/HackerNews/API</a>
I second the idea of trying to bypass paywalls. Archive today ( <a href="https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today</a> ) notably archive.is and similar, work reliably.<p>One can often bypass paywalls, nag walls, etc with Safari Reader, bypass paywalls clean extension for Firefox and Chrome (Opera uses the chrome engine) or disabling JavaScript for selected sites. I use Sheriff on iOS to do this. Other extensions will do this, I am sure.<p>---<p>Twitter links are often posted here, and without an account there, you can only see tho OP.<p>Discussion of workarounds here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768</a><p>There is concern that nitter.net may flake.
Wikipedia entries are some of my favorite HN front page entries because it’s always a mystery to me as to which ones pop up and which don’t (I’ve submitted a few that didn’t make it). Try archive.is to bypass paywalled articles.
There are some userscript filters you can customize : <a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=hacker+news+filter" rel="nofollow">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=hacker+news+filter</a><p>Not a filter, but this one "bypass" paywalled links <a href="https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall">https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall</a>