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title: A script that hides AI topics from Hacker News
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description: Sometimes I want to read about something different
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date: 2023-03-21
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tags:
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- random
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- javascript
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draft: false
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extra:
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auto_center_images: true
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excerpt: This post shows off a userscript I built that hides AI topics from Hacker
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News.
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discuss:
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reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ewpratten/comments/12xzw5x/a_script_that_hides_ai_topics_from_hacker_news/
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hacker_news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252186
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aliases:
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- /blog/hackernews-block-ai
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---
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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.
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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.
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## Use the script for yourself!
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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.
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```js
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// ==UserScript==
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// @name Hide AI articles
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// @namespace https://ewpratten.com/
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// @version 0.1
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// @description Hides AI topics from HackerNews
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// @author Evan Pratten <evan@ewpratten.com>
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// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/
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// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/news*
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// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
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// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=*
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// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=ycombinator.com
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// @grant none
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// ==/UserScript==
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const BANNED_TERMS = [
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/GPT/,
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/GPT\d/,
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/GPT-\d/,
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/OpenAI/,
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/\s+AI\s+/,
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/^AI\s+/,
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/AI-/,
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/\s+A\.I\.\s+/
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];
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(function() {
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'use strict';
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// Find all posts on the page (HN calls them "things")
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var things = document.getElementsByClassName("athing");
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// Process each "thing" on the page
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for (var thing of things) {
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// The ID is important
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var id = thing.id;
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// Find the title text
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var title_text = thing.querySelector(".titleline").textContent;
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// If a banned term is in the title, hide it
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for (var term of BANNED_TERMS) {
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if (term.exec(title_text)) {
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// Hide the title line
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thing.hidden = true;
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// The next TR will contain a bit more information. It can be found via the thing ID
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var thing_score = document.getElementById(`score_${id}`);
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if (thing_score) {
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thing_score.parentNode.parentNode.hidden = true;
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}
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}
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}
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}
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})();
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```
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## A side effect of doing this
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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:
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