Chrome extension to free HN from tiresome OpenAI/ChatGPT clutter.
Problem: Parts of HN (like “shownew”) are unusable these days due to the tiresome OpenAI/ChatGPT-related clutter.
Solution: Hide these submissions. (Exception: if they exceed a certain popularity threshold of 10 comments or 10 points.)
- Grab a copy of this repo by cloning or downloading.
- Open extension dashboard in Chrome.
- Enable “Developer mode” toggle in the top left corner.
- Drag&Drop the entire folder of this repo onto the dashboard page.
You can also customise the logic in script.js
. (Don’t forget to reload the extension afterwards; there is a little “refresh” icon for that on the extension dashboard.)