Stop seeing HN stories on offending topics

Latest Version

Version
0.4
Update
July 19, 2017
Size
7.31KiB
Developer
Category
Users
19
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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HN Keyword Filter Extension

Source Available on github

Tired of seeing political stories in the HN list? Not interested in the latest JavaScript framework? Had enough of the Rust lovefest? Now you can kill stories you're not interested in before they soil your precious eyes.

Instructions:

1. When you're on HN, you'll see the little YCombinator logo enable.
2. Click it and type create a comma-separated list of words into the textarea.

You keywords are persisted across popup opens and browser sessions via localStorage.

Those words are used to filter out unwanted stories. The filtration happens on page load and when the list is changed (debounce of 1 sec). The removed stories are printed to the console.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "HN Keyword Filter", "version": "0.4", "default_locale": "en", "description": "Stop seeing HN stories on offending topics", "icons": {"16" : "hn.png"}, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/*"], "js": ["contentScript.js"] } ], "page_action": {\t"default_icon": "hn.png", "default_popup": "popup.html" },\t"permissions": [\t"tabs",\t\t"webNavigation",\t\t"declarativeContent"\t ], "author": "Shamari Feaster", "background": {\t"scripts": ["main.js"], "persistent": false }}
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Gui Ambros (ID: 0000004e8ef85809) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/12/2023 That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for writing it!

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Jonathan F (ID: 0000004e0bc11d47) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/04/2017 great app, if you write hackernews or hacker news or even ycombinator in the title people will find it more than with "HN"