1. yes 2. don't know, happened before (last week)

same functionality: go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and paste in console:

for(x of document.getElementsByClassName('score')){ if(x.innerText=="1 point" || x.innerText=="2 points"){ y=x.parentNode.parentNode; y.previousSibling.remove(); y.remove() } }