HN Keyword Filter

Stop seeing HN stories on offending topics
What is HN Keyword Filter?
HN Keyword Filter is a Chrome extension that allows you to filter out unwanted stories on Hacker News based on keywords. Simply create a comma-separated list of words and the extension will remove those stories from your view. Stop seeing political stories, JavaScript frameworks, or any other topics you're not interested in.

Extension stats

Users: 17 ▼ -1
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 0.4 (Last updated: 2017-07-19)
Creation date: 2017-07-19
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • webNavigation
  • declarativeContent
Size: 7.49K

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Extension summary

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.

User reviews

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for writing it!
by Gui Ambros, 2023-02-12

great app, if you write hackernews or hacker news or even ycombinator in the title people will find it more than with "HN"
by Jonathan F, 2017-09-04
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Extension safety

Risk impact

HN Keyword Filter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

HN Keyword Filter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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