Chrome extension to avoid noisy domains in the Hacker News feed

No Noise Hacker News - Chrome browser extension

Do you ever wish you could filter Hacker News to avoid the noise? I am talking about the noise from big websites trying to push their content to HN hoping for a bigger audience.

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 of stories shadowing the light of attention (especially in the "new" section).

This is the source of the chrome extension No Noise Hacker News 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 for more details on how the domains were identified.

Todo

• Let the top bar icon get color when stories have been filtered
• Clicking on the top bar icon gives you the option to reload the page with no stories filtered
• Let the list of domains be updated with data for 2016 or the last X days
• Let people add and remove listed domains by themselves

PR very welcome

But?

Is this censoring?

• No, this is a way of limiting domains with a high amount of noise.

Will it hide a really interesting story?

• Yes, but any story that is number 1 will never be filtered (so if its really good, you will still see it)

How can I see if anything is being filtered?

The sequence of numbers at the left side will skip the order of natural numbers.

I really want to see what is being filtered?

Open the page in incognito mode to avoid filtering anything.

Can I alter the list of domains being filtered?

• Not right now, but that is where I want to go with this plugin. PRs are very welcome.

What is being filtered

At the moment the following domains are filtered:

• techcrunch.com
• nytimes.com
• arstechnica.com
• wired.com
• bbc.co.uk
• wsj.com
• businessinsider.com
• forbes.com
• cnn.com
• venturebeat.com
• mashable.com
• theverge.com
• thenextweb.com
• cnet.com
• washingtonpost.com
• theatlantic.com
• readwriteweb.com
• gigaom.com
• theguardian.com
• economist.com
• reuters.com
• bloomberg.com
• yahoo.com
• guardian.co.uk
• zdnet.com
• engadget.com
• slate.com
• technologyreview.com
• theregister.co.uk
• posterous.com
• bbc.com
• gizmodo.com
• npr.org
• businessweek.com
• itworld.com
• fastcompany.com
• huffingtonpost.com
• telegraph.co.uk
• networkworld.com

See src/script.js for more details on how the domains were identified.