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Re:Show HN: Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword by elcapitan on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:51AM (#13471244)
Did it work for you? Filtering by title keywords only seems to be rather hard, especially for political stuff, which often uses rather non-descriptive headlines.

Example: "New CIA Chief to Gladly Spy on Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked by Russians" looks like opinionism that I could pretty well live without, but it doesn't contain any keywords I would blacklist.

For technical stuff it's probably a lot easier (just name the language/framework/etc).

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Re:Show HN: Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword by alistproducer2 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:03AM (#13471808)
Yeah, I ran into something similar. I had "president" on my list and it blocked a story on the president of a company. It's kind of trial and error. That's why I find it useful to see what stories are blocked so you can get a sense for how well your filter is working.
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