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Comment by ryandrake | Hacker News Reader

I've always thought it would be a sorta neat project to make a web plugin to remove certain topics from the HN main page, but I have never before been ->this<- close to starting such a project than I am now. These topics have totally taken over, and quite frankly, the volume of them make HN less interesting.

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I wrote a simple uBlock Origin rule as a quick-and-dirty solution months ago. It doesn't get rid of sibling nodes (still haven't researched how to do it), but does remove the submission title and the vote button.

  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .submission:has-text(/\b(llms?|vibe[ -]?cod[ei]|claude|chatgpt|altman|agentic|ai)\b/i)

The line goes to uBO settings → My filters.

I removed most words to keep it short, it's easy to adjust according to one's tastes.

Your filter doesn’t seem to be working properly right now.

You should be able to vibe-code such a plugin in an evening. ;)

I don’t like it as well, but it’s a reflection of what people are concerning themselves with, so it is what is is.

There is an app named "Glider" on F-Droid that allows one to filter the HN main page by keywords and url.

My current filters are:

urls: twitter.com youtube.com

keywords: gemini openai claude llm llms ai agi

Make the front page more interresting. I'm on browser right now, otherwise this thread would have been filtered.

If you just want stories and don't care about the comments, just use the search bar.

Bonus points if you implement it with an LLM, then blog about it using an LLM, and then post the link to HN where it will be auto filtered out by the generated tool (maybe, because let’s face it, it’s non deterministic)

I could post it to HN as a "Show HN" for extra irony points.

i had a similar idea.

i’ve been hiding a bunch of AI/LLM posts out of habit with the background idea that it might be useful for regexs.

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