Filtered views of YC News

River of news style interface to YC News, combining stories and comments. Context for any comment is just a click away.

The page will remember what you've seen before, so if you hit reload you'll see an orange line separating new stuff from what's already been displayed.

I've been using it to read news.yc for a few days, and just added filtering. To maintain whitelists and blacklists of usernames, add parameters to the url.

Conversations where pg is involved: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?pg

Blacklists after '-'. Conversations without me: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-akkartik

You can combine the two: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?nostrademons-akkartik

Want only the chatter around Ask-YC style stories where no URL was submitted? http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?ask

Or you think they are teh suck? http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-ask

You get the idea. You can also put URLs in the blacklist to filter out boring conversations. To prune out yday's flamewar on drugs:

http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-http://news.ycombinator.co...

Comments welcome: hystry@gmail.com

akkartikOP18y

Feature update: hystry now shows both newsyc and arclanguage.org by default. To not read arc stories, add arc to the blacklist in your URL by bookmarking:

http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-arc

akkartikOP18y

Feature update: to change the number of items to N rendered add renderN to the blacklist. e.g.:

http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render10

Putting it in the whitelist prob won't do what you want.