As annoying as all of the iPad stuff has been, no one seemed to have any problem with the pure rumor stories that poured all over HN in the days preceding the announcement.

And actually, as someone who first thought "Oh god, this thing sucks..." -- some of the commentary I've read has been quite enlightening and now has me considering an iPad for my girlfriend's mother.

The quality of the stories on iPads that are being submitted are not in question IMO. I will not be filtering them.

Finally, I will certainly not be filtering lisp or Clojure. If you want to keep your mind closed off to things you don't know much about, be my guest. If you've made up your mind on something and never want to think about it again, then again, be my guest. Not for me.

First, I take this and other no-more-ipad stories a little tongue-in-cheek and guess others do the same. In fact I'm reading both the linked articles and the comments of most submissions. I'd even buy one of those things if I could.

That said, I do question the quality of the stories, specially the misguided arguments and the tone that they're delivered with. A lot of the writers seems to think that the critics are saying that the iPad won't sell or that nobody will like the device. And they think that's because critics are asocial geeks that have no clue on how the real world works, and should be educated to dismiss such superfluous luxury as freedom to install programs, connect to a printer or download movies, luxuries that normal people doesn't want or care about.

That's annoying and the most annoying thing is saying that a system like the app store is actually good and "revolutionary" and that whoever doesn't like it is because he doesn't "get it".

All right, I believe that this device could sell very well and be a big hit among very diverse people, with technical background or otherwise, mainly because the well designed multitouch interface. But that doesn't make the whole thing desirable or needed,

The device seems great. It sucks that it's so closed.

Why Lisp and Clojure, of all the things?

I for one love HN but have no interest in Lisp or Clojure.

Anyone who knows tomh- knows that hes lisp hostile ;-)

On Safari, your script messes up the layout of the front page. All items compress into each other.

Anyway, if you want to make it really good, get it to put a little textbox at the bottom where we can type in a regex. That would be more generally useful and isn't hard to do. I might give it a go even.. :-) (Plug: I recently wrote a GM script to change new style RTs into old style ones on Twitter - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/66951)

Settle down, it'll all be over soon enough.

That's right.

     --- sent from my iPad(tm)

How about one for Erlang?

Seriously though, the iPad is just the shiny new thing of the day, it won't be nearly as big news in a few days. Not worth worrying about.

Why not just use Xichekolas's script at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 ? It is very flexible and does a bit more.

would the script remove this story?

Don't tempt me!

great.......i like this one.....