Derek's Hackernews Crap Filter

Manifesto

Do you like the technical articles that filter through Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com)?

Are you really tired of schmaltz and chaff like this?

• "This is a web page. It's made up of words." ... "OMG IT'S SO TRUE"
• "Why I'm Leaving Elon Musk"
• "How do I find a technical co-founder?"

No longer.

• Stick your most-hated buzzphrases in filter.txt.
• Terminal.app => Profiles => Advanced => [x] Set locale environment variables on startup
• Run hn_filter.py in a terminal session.
• Or run hn_filter_server.py and visit http://localhost:31337/

But that's not all!

You also get my list of irritating buzzwords as a default filter set. It slices, it dices, it kills monsters!

[Cmd]+Double-Click URLs in Mac OS X Terminal.app to open them.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or Python 3.4
• Python modules: BeautifulSoup and Requests

Alternatives

There are other Hacker News filters (http://hnapp.com/) but they don't accommodate the level of grumpiness I have achieved (70+ entries in the default killfile).

Version History

v0.4 - 08-Nov-2014

• Add Python 3.x compatibility (tested with 3.4) (if you're on OS X, be sure to enable "Set locale environment variables on startup" in Terminal.app)
• HN is now all SSL, all the time, so enable SSL verification

v0.3 - 07-Sep-2013

• Bring back console version. Web version optional.
• Allow comments in killfile.
• Killfile updated with latest curmudgeonry.
• Clean up filenames.

v0.2 - 15-Aug-2013

• Use bottle.py to provide a web interface. Contributed by tiberiu@tiberiuana.com (thank you)

v0.1 - 14-Aug-2013

• Initial release.

Have a nice day.