Great addition, but why not write it as a userscript instead of Chrome plugin? C...

danmaz74 · on May 27, 2012

This was just an experiment, and the extension looked like the easiest way to do it (I use chrome 90% of the time).

But I was thinking about publishing the source to github; the js is very simple, if anybody wants to fork it for other browsers is welcome :)

By the way, can you use css files with userscripts?

angry-hacker · on May 27, 2012

You can but they need to be hosted somewhere or you need to create a link tag with javascript and add it dynamically...

Something like that:

var css = document.createElement('link'); css.textContent = 'css here'; document.head.appendChild(css);

danmaz74 · on May 27, 2012

This is what I was afraid of. By the way, without the css the functionality works anywya, it just looks worse.

notJim · on May 27, 2012

If the project is on github, you can just link to the repo for hosting.

dnewcome · on May 27, 2012

I wrote something like this as a user script that works in FF(w/Greasemonkey)/Chrome/Opera a while ago [1]. The idea is to remove individual stories or add filters rather than removing everything like the OP. My script is based on VI-style shortcut keys though so that may influence how useful you find it.

[1] https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk