I come here for tech content and interesting discussions, not US political discussions and speculation. Are there any tools which classify/filter HN threads? I've found http://hckrnews.com/ but there's still too many NSA stories hogging the top.
I like it, but it's vey difficult to get the link to the HN comments (hint: it's in the points /comment number). The comments are usually very helpful to understand the details I always want to see them.
Here's a Safari extension for blocking Bitcoin articles. You can easily modify it to block your keywords of choice. There's also a link in there to a similar Chrome extension.
Update the removal list in the URL as necessary (or go to http://diff.biz for an old default removal list).
My site has been dead for a while (I think crawlers are crawling my site causing it to hit HN, but then HN blocks me due to over requesting), but I unblocked it today. We'll see how long it lasts.
Question for those who would know: if I were to try to do this with javascript, how many requests could I make to the site at a time without being auto-banned?
If you want to edit the filter 1) change parameters, 2) click preview to see new filtered results, 3) click save to get a link to the new filter.