hn block ai

.vscode/settings.json

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         "configurability",
         "grayscale",
         "inpainting",
-        "rotoscope"
+        "rotoscope",
+        "Tapermonkey"
     ]
 }

content/blog/2023-03-21-hackernews-block-ai.md

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+---
+layout: page
+title: "A script that hides AI topics from Hacker News" 
+description: "Sometimes I want to read about something different"
+date: 2023-03-21
+tags: random
+draft: true
+extra:
+  auto_center_images: true
+  excerpt: "This post shows off a userscript I built that hides AI topics from Hacker News."
+---
+
+Ok. AI-backed tools are cool, but sometimes I just want to read about something else on the [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/news) website.
+
+To tame the sea of AI-related posts on the site, I have built a Tapermonkey user script that will automatically hide all posts containing AI keywords.
+
+## Use the script for yourself!
+
+Want to join me and hiding AI posts? Just pop this script into Tapermonkey or GreaseMonkey (or whatever you use) and you're good to go.
+
+```js
+// ==UserScript==
+// @name         Hide AI articles
+// @namespace    https://ewpratten.com/
+// @version      0.1
+// @description  Hides AI topics from HackerNews
+// @author       Evan Pratten <evan@ewpratten.com>
+// @match        https://news.ycombinator.com/*
+// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=ycombinator.com
+// @grant        none
+// ==/UserScript==
+
+const BANNED_TERMS = [
+    /GPT/,
+    /GPT\d/,
+    /GPT-\d/,
+    /OpenAI/,
+    /\s+AI\s+/,
+    /^AI\s+/,
+    /AI-/,
+    /\s+A\.I\.\s+/
+];
+
+(function() {
+    'use strict';
+
+    // Find all posts on the page (HN calls them "things")
+    var things = document.getElementsByClassName("athing");
+
+    // Process each "thing" on the page
+    for (var thing of things) {
+        // The ID is important
+        var id = thing.id;
+
+        // Find the title text
+        var title_text = thing.querySelector(".titleline").textContent;
+
+        // If a banned term is in the title, hide it
+        for (var term of BANNED_TERMS) {
+            if (term.exec(title_text)) {
+
+                // Hide the title line
+                thing.hidden = true;
+
+                // The next TR will contain a bit more information. It can be found via the thing ID
+                var thing_score = document.getElementById(`score_${id}`);
+                if (thing_score) {
+                    thing_score.parentNode.parentNode.hidden = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+})();
+```
+
+## A side effect of doing this
+
+And now, after publishing this post, I am about to share it on Hacker News... where I will never be able to find it again because the title of *this post* contains the term `AI` as well :facepalm: