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Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by 29athrowaway on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:14AM (#36861145)
Is there a way to hide everything from nytimes.com?
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by masklinn on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:18AM (#36861178)
I don't think HN supports any form of blacklisting natively, so... userscript? Possibly there's already relevant ones available.

You might even be able to do it via userstyles thanks to the :has selector.

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by boredumb on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:09AM (#36861654)
If anyone has a script to hide the new yorker, NYTimes, wapo, buzzfeed, businessinsider, telegraph, etc etc all the tabloids, i'd also love to see it!
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by hef19898 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:18AM (#36863592)
Can we add substack? Also I manage to do that inconciously, along with medium.

Edit: Generally, WaPo and NYT are quite good. Sometimes so...

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by 29athrowaway on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:37PM (#36865093)
Make it a service and call it Detox. I would pay for that.
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by adwi on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:59PM (#36867629)
Sincere question, if you consider those tabloids, which sources do you trust?

The New Yorker, for instance, famously has one of the most intense fact checking operations of any publication. If it’s a matter of your personal politics disagreeing with perceived editorial bias of those, godspeed. But at least the first three you list have a lot more to lose by getting a factual statement wrong than most.

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by 29athrowaway on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:40AM (#36873519)
Reuters and AP News tend to have less sensationalist stuff.
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by boredumb on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:13AM (#36861704)
``` document.querySelectorAll('.athing:has(a[href*="nytimes.com"]').forEach(x => { x.style.display = "none"; x.nextElementSibling.style.display = "none" }) ```
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by flir on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:46PM (#36870777)
Filter the RSS feed?
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by esquevin on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:47AM (#36861432)
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:10AM (#36861674)
Great story. I have heard similar, many times over, but it's unusual to have someone that can write about it.

Of course, for every person that has climbed out of the charnel pit, there's a thousand more that remain.

Miles to go, before I sleep ...

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by catchnear4321 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:38AM (#36862922)
> Hardin wrote a memoir instead ... The book comes out from Simon & Schuster on Aug. 1.

it is a fancy advertisement.

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by jetrink on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:19AM (#36863617)
It might feel like that having been linked directly, but it was published in the books section of the paper, which is visited by people looking for new books to read.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/books/review

Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by xhkkffbf on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:21AM (#36863646)
It's kind of sad how the NYT art content is now largely just a bunch of cheerleader puff pieces.
Re:From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling... by gumby on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:51AM (#36864144)
samclemens should have rewritten the headline to include the word "pivot" when submitting this!

I know "editorializing" the HN headline is frowned upon but surely it would be OK in this case.