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Authornova

LicenseWTFPL

Categoryhacker news

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Description

fixes some of my personal annoyances with HN without changing too much

Notes

list of changes

  • adds padding to usernames so that all the subtext buttons line up
  • hides some elements like link age, score, etc
  • adds emoji icons to links based on where they link to
    • icons to indicate paywalled sites
    • icons to indicate video links
    • icons to indicate common sites like wikipedia, github, etc
    • icons to indicate sites with heavy bias
  • sets all the text to lowercase to make the site less noisy/attention grabbing

release notes

0.0.6

  • add new icon for hiring links

0.0.5

  • clumsily hide the flag button on the main page

Source code

/* ==UserStyle==
@name           streamlined hacker news
@namespace      userstyles.world/style/3152
@version        0.0.6
@description    fixes my personal annoyances with the orange website for computer boys
@author         nova
==/UserStyle== */

@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
     
    /* make the username a standard width */
    .hnuser
    {
        display: inline-block;
        width: 5rem;
    }

    /* hide link age and score*/
    .age,
    .score,
    #hnmain > tbody > tr:first-child > td:first-child > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td:first-child
    {
        display: none !important;
    }

    body,
    table
    {
        text-transform: lowercase;
    }

    td.title > a:before
    {
        content: " 🔗 ";
    }
    
    /* 
     * don't show the flag button on the main page
     * i always click it by accident when trying to click hide
     * this still shows it on the comments page
     */
    table.itemlist a[href^="flag"]
    {
        display: none;
    }

    td.title > a[href*="wikipedia.org"]:before
    {
        content: " 📖 ";
    }

    /* video links */
    td.title > a[href*="vimeo.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="ted.com/talks"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="youtube.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="youtu.be"]:before
    {
        content: " 📺 ";
    }

    /* news for hackers */
    td.title > a[href*="github.com"]:before
    {
        content: " 👩‍💻 ";
    }
    
    /* hiring links */
    td.title > a[href*="lever.co"]:before
    {
        content: " 🕴 ";
    }
    
    /* paywall sites */
    td.title > a[href*="nytimes.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="economist.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="wsj.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="washingtonpost.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="reuters.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="ft.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="bloomberg.com"]:before
    {
        content: " 💰 ";
    }

    /* propaganda sites */
    td.title > a[href*="unherd.com"]:before,
    td.title > a[href*="brookings.edu"]:before
    {
        content: " 🇺🇸 ";
    }
}

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