Excluding Hacker News AI articles in my Newsboat RSS

There's been too many AI articles in Hacker News recently, and it's become so boring that I was thinking about removing Hacker News from my RSS reader, Newsboat. Then, I suddenly remembered something I had read in Newsboat's manual a long time ago: the possibility to filter out articles! I've solved the problem by adding the following to my config: ignore-mode "display" ignore-article "https://news.ycombinator.com/rss" "title =~ \"(^|[^A-Za-z])AI([^A-Za-z]|$)|artificial intelligence|GPT|Claude|Copilot\"" ignore-mode The ignore-mode option has two values, "display" and "download". The default, which is "download", only limits what would be downloaded the next time Newsboat checks for new articles, but "display" applies the filter when showing the articles, which has two advantages in the short-term: It applies to your old articles as well, and so you can more easily check to see if it works well. It's a better option when you want to find a good ignore-article value by trial and error.…