I wish I could view a version of Hacker News in which ALL links to articles that are behind a paywall are just hidden from me. I would just rather not see them at all.
I wish I could report these kinds of newspapers with paywalls. Hacker News should ban these sites. It doesn't make sense to share news nobody can read.
It would be nice if hacker news would allow you to block sites in your profile. I'd love to block any article on medium.com, wired.com or nytimes.com; they all seem to be empty fluff articles.
Getting real tired of subscription based news sites making it to hacker news top all the time. I literally can't read these damn articles, please post an archived version or something
I made hackerer.news[0] that filters all stories for the day into groups. I should add a paywalled group since I usually skip them too.
Sometimes I'll just google part of the title and read a different article on the topic. It's rare for a story to only be reported by one source and I usually only care about deep details for tech which tends not to be paywalled much as business or politics.
Edit: I just wanted to make an issue for this and realized this is still on GitLab[1]--should move it too.
Ironically Hacker News is blocked (thru the host file) on my pc for this reason. I still browse it one my phone, but it is a more conscious action and it is less confortable, so I waste less time on it.
For those that are interested, I took a slightly different approach by making a “Hacker News Cleanser service that will periodically hide articles based on title keywords, site, and user.
I tend to agree and solved this for myself by building a small, self-hosted service that auto-hides Hacker News stories by title keyword/regex, site, or user. That way you can have more control over auto-curating your Hacker News page, instead of having to invest time in a whole new community. If you have a Raspberry Pi or small VM somewhere, consider giving it a try!
I would also more than happily pay for hacker news, but since it's free and user submitted I think it is a different case.
Perhaps there should be a general news site where the users submit the news articles themselves, it would probably be faster than the ACTUAL news companies who have to send out a reported, as opposed to a civilian on the streets witnessing it happen.
(Of course, then the news corporations would leech off the site.)
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