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Hey HN moderators? Can you make an Elon specific forum or flag so we can decide whether to follow all this melodrama? There’s so many posts it makes it hard to catch things before they’re off the new pages. It’s still just a microblogging service…

On a more general level, perhaps it would be useful to have the option to mute certain keywords? Implementation should be trivial with a browser extension. Not that I need it, but I think this is a legitimate pain point.

That seems like a reasonable idea, or at least as justifiable as the noprocrast feature.

Some way of auto collecting dups would be good as well. Would reduce fractured discussion threads.

There should be a "primary source" policy that prefers twitter.com/elonmusk submissions to... basically any article about Elon Musk. But I think this policy already exists informally - and anyway, the OP appropriately submitted the primary source for this story.

I agree there is a lot of Musk noise recently, and it's hard to filter if you only check /new periodically.

The primary source (ha) of the noise is "reporters" who re-publish the same primary source or fact (in this case, a tweet) across dozens of websites, with increasingly vague headlines tempting you to check whether you missed something since reading the primary source. Spoiler alert: you didn't. As a rule of thumb, any news article about Elon Musk contains zero new information that you can't find yourself by checking twitter.com/elonmusk

Years ago there was a startup that attempted to sort each news "article" (link to a webpage) into a bucket for each "story" (ongoing thread of dependent articles). I think it was called Wirecard? It didn't work out then but maybe time to try again.

> There should be a "primary source" policy that prefers twitter.com/elonmusk submissions to... basically any article about Elon Musk.

Why? Musk lies routinely and is fundamentally untrustworthy. He shouldn't be used as a source for anything.

Musk's Apple tantrum is purely because Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter. It's his childish attempt at retaliation. It's boring.

Here is Musk's latest delusional missive on and about Twitter (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088): "This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead."

It's sad to see him lose the plot like this.

For example, in the /new feed right now, there is a tweet [0] and then an "article" [1] reporting on the tweet but adding zero new information.

These were posted within one minute of each other.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786892

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786897

And Apple has removed all their tweets. Or did Twitter remove them?

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