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I am talking about the noise from big websites trying to push their content to HN hoping for a bigger audience. 10 | 11 | I have a feeling some websites sometimes think _"Let us push (all) the content and let the community sort out what is interesting"_ while flooding the feed like a [Kudzu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu_in_the_United_States) of stories shadowing the light of attention (especially in the "new" section). 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | This is the source of [the chrome extension No Noise Hacker News](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-noise-hacker-news/meeppdmpplgpkpgdlnhfagmplkmkjhnm/) that filteres away stories from domains that - per november 2015 - had more than than 2500 submitted stories but less than 40% had more than 3 votes. See [`src/script.js`](https://github.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/blob/master/src/script.js) for more details on how the domains were identified. 16 | 17 | ## Todo 18 | * Let the top bar icon get color when stories have been filtered 19 | * Clicking on the top bar icon gives you the option to reload the page with no stories filtered 20 | * Let the list of domains be updated with data for 2016 or the last X days 21 | * Let people add and remove listed domains by themselves 22 | 23 | 24 | _PR very welcome_ 25 | 26 | 27 | ## But? 28 | 29 | #### Is this censoring? 30 | - No, this is a way of limiting domains with a high amount of noise. 31 | 32 | #### Will it hide a really interesting story? 33 | - Yes, but any story that is number 1 will never be filtered (so if its really good, you will still see it) 34 | 35 | #### How can I see if anything is being filtered? 36 | The sequence of numbers at the left side will skip the order of natural numbers. 37 | 38 | #### I really want to see what is being filtered? 39 | Open the page in incognito mode to avoid filtering anything. 40 | 41 | #### Can I alter the list of domains being filtered? 42 | - Not right now, but that is where I want to go with this plugin. PRs are very welcome. 43 | 44 | #### What is being filtered 45 | At the moment the following domains are filtered: 46 | - techcrunch.com 47 | - nytimes.com 48 | - arstechnica.com 49 | - wired.com 50 | - bbc.co.uk 51 | - wsj.com 52 | - businessinsider.com 53 | - forbes.com 54 | - cnn.com 55 | - venturebeat.com 56 | - mashable.com 57 | - theverge.com 58 | - thenextweb.com 59 | - cnet.com 60 | - washingtonpost.com 61 | - theatlantic.com 62 | - readwriteweb.com 63 | - gigaom.com 64 | - theguardian.com 65 | - economist.com 66 | - reuters.com 67 | - bloomberg.com 68 | - yahoo.com 69 | - guardian.co.uk 70 | - zdnet.com 71 | - engadget.com 72 | - slate.com 73 | - technologyreview.com 74 | - theregister.co.uk 75 | - posterous.com 76 | - bbc.com 77 | - gizmodo.com 78 | - npr.org 79 | - businessweek.com 80 | - itworld.com 81 | - fastcompany.com 82 | - huffingtonpost.com 83 | - telegraph.co.uk 84 | - networkworld.com 85 | 86 | See [`src/script.js`](https://github.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/blob/master/src/script.js) for more details on how the domains were identified. 87 | 88 | 89 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /graphics/iconOri.psd: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/graphics/iconOri.psd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /graphics/tileOri.psd: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/graphics/tileOri.psd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /graphics/tileSmall.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/graphics/tileSmall.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon128.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon128.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon16.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon16.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon256.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon256.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon32.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon32.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon48.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon48.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/icon64.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathiasrw/no-noise-hacker-news/af53c863d737a252bf89389a9afe549aa3d6794f/src/icon64.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/manifest.json: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | { 2 | "name": "No Noise Hacker News", 3 | "version": "0.1.0", 4 | "permissions": [ 5 | "https://news.ycombinator.com/*" 6 | ], 7 | "content_scripts": [ 8 | { 9 | "matches": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/*"], 10 | "js": ["script.js"], 11 | "run_at": "document_end" 12 | } 13 | ], 14 | "manifest_version": 2, 15 | "icons": { 16 | "16": "icon16.png", 17 | "32": "icon32.png", 18 | "48": "icon48.png", 19 | "64": "icon64.png", 20 | "128": "icon128.png", 21 | "256": "icon256.png" 22 | } 23 | } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /src/script.js: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(new RegExp(/.+?/, "g"), ""); 2 | 3 | /* 4 | Noise list generate with data from https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:hacker_news per november 2015 5 | 6 | All domains with more than 2500 stories with more than 60% of stories having 3 or less votes 7 | 8 | Sites with usergenerated content was manually filtered out. 9 | 10 | //SQL: 11 | SELECT 12 | REGEXP_EXTRACT((REGEXP_EXTRACT(stories.url,'http://([^/]+)/')),'([^\\.]+\\.[^\\.]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z].)?)$') AS stories_url_domain, 13 | COUNT(stories.id) AS stories_count, 14 | COUNT(CASE WHEN stories.score <= 3 THEN 1 ELSE NULL END) AS storiescountscore_3_minus, 15 | COUNT(CASE WHEN stories.score <= 3 THEN 1 ELSE NULL END) / COUNT(stories.id) *100 AS stories_percent_3_minus, 16 | FROM [fh-bigquery:hackernews.stories] 17 | AS stories 18 | 19 | WHERE 20 | REGEXP_EXTRACT((REGEXP_EXTRACT(stories.url,'http://([^/]+)/')),'([^\\.]+\\.[^\\.]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z].)?)$') 21 | NOT IN ( // Sites with usergenerated content 22 | 'blogspot.com', 23 | 'youtube.com', 24 | 'wordpress.com', 25 | 'tumblr.com', 26 | 'google.com', 27 | 'wikipedia.org', 28 | 'github.com', 29 | 'bit.ly', 30 | 'typepad.com', 31 | 'reddit.com', 32 | 'stackoverflow.com', 33 | 'quora.com', 34 | 'youtu.be', 35 | 'stackexchange.com' 36 | ) 37 | GROUP EACH BY 1 38 | HAVING 39 | COUNT(stories.id) > 2500 40 | AND stories_percent_3_minus > 60 41 | ORDER BY 4 aSC 42 | LIMIT 500 43 | 44 | 45 | Result: 46 | techcrunch.com 47 | nytimes.com 48 | arstechnica.com 49 | wired.com 50 | bbc.co.uk 51 | wsj.com 52 | businessinsider.com 53 | forbes.com 54 | cnn.com 55 | venturebeat.com 56 | mashable.com 57 | theverge.com 58 | thenextweb.com 59 | cnet.com 60 | washingtonpost.com 61 | theatlantic.com 62 | readwriteweb.com 63 | gigaom.com 64 | theguardian.com 65 | economist.com 66 | reuters.com 67 | bloomberg.com 68 | yahoo.com 69 | guardian.co.uk 70 | zdnet.com 71 | engadget.com 72 | slate.com 73 | technologyreview.com 74 | theregister.co.uk 75 | posterous.com 76 | bbc.com 77 | gizmodo.com 78 | npr.org 79 | businessweek.com 80 | itworld.com 81 | fastcompany.com 82 | huffingtonpost.com 83 | telegraph.co.uk 84 | networkworld.com 85 | 86 | */ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------