diff --git a/recipes/lifehacker.recipe b/recipes/lifehacker.recipe
index f7beaa1c7c..861eb1c208 100644
--- a/recipes/lifehacker.recipe
+++ b/recipes/lifehacker.recipe
@@ -1,87 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
+# License: GPLv3 Copyright: 2017, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from datetime import datetime
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
-from calibre.utils.magick import Image, PixelWand
+
+
+def classes(classes):
+    q = frozenset(classes.split(' '))
+    return dict(
+        attrs={'class': lambda x: x and frozenset(x.split()).intersection(q)})
 
 
 class LifeHacker(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    THUMBALIZR_API = ''  # ---->Get your at http://www.thumbalizr.com/ and put here
-    LANGUAGE = 'en'
-    LANGHTM = 'en'
-    language = 'en'
-    ENCODING = 'utf'
-    ENCHTM = 'utf-8'
-    requires_version = (0, 7, 47)
-    news = True
-
     title = u'LifeHacker'
-    __author__ = 'Euler Alves'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
+    language = 'en'
     description = u'Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done.'
     publisher = u'lifehacker.com'
-    author = u'Adam Pash & Kevin Purdy & Adam Dachis & Whitson Gordon & Gina Trapani'
-    category = 'news, rss'
-
     oldest_article = 4
     max_articles_per_feed = 20
     summary_length = 1000
 
     remove_javascript = True
     no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = True
+    use_embedded_content = False
     remove_empty_feeds = True
-    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y (%a)]'
-
-    hoje = datetime.now()
-    pubdate = hoje.strftime('%a, %d %b')
-    cover_url = 'http://api.thumbalizr.com/?api_key=' + THUMBALIZR_API + \
-        '&url=http://lifehacker.com&width=600&quality=90'
-    cover_margins = (0, 0, 'white')
-    masthead_url = 'http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/lifehacker.com/img/logo.png'
 
+    keep_only_tags = [
+        classes('headline author post-content'),
+    ]
     remove_tags = [
-        {'class': 'feedflare'},
-        dict(name='div',
-             attrs={'class': [
-                 'ad_container', 'ad_300x250', 'ad_interstitial', 'share-wrap', 'ad_300x600', 'ad_perma-footer-adsense', 'ad_perma-panorama', 'ad panorama', 'ad_container'  # noqa
-             ]}), dict(name='div',
-                       attrs={'id': [
-                           'agegate_container', 'agegate_container_rejected', 'sharemenu-wrap'
-                       ]})
+        classes('commerce-inset'),
     ]
 
     feeds = [(u'Articles', u'https://lifehacker.com/rss')]
-
-    conversion_options = {
-        'title': title, 'comments': description, 'publisher': publisher, 'tags': category, 'language': LANGUAGE, 'linearize_tables': True
-    }
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
-            del item['style']
-        if not soup.find(attrs={'http-equiv': 'Content-Language'}):
-            meta0 = Tag(soup, 'meta', [
-                        ("http-equiv", "Content-Language"), ("content", self.LANGHTM)])
-            soup.head.insert(0, meta0)
-        if not soup.find(attrs={'http-equiv': 'Content-Type'}):
-            meta1 = Tag(soup, 'meta', [
-                        ("http-equiv", "Content-Type"), ("content", "text/html; charset=" + self.ENCHTM)])
-            soup.head.insert(0, meta1)
-        return soup
-
-    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
-        # process all the images. assumes that the new html has the correct
-        # path
-        for tag in soup.findAll(lambda tag: tag.name.lower() == 'img' and tag.has_key('src')):  # noqa
-            iurl = tag['src']
-            img = Image()
-            img.open(iurl)
-            width, height = img.size
-            print 'img is: ', iurl, 'width is: ', width, 'height is: ', height
-            if img < 0:
-                raise RuntimeError('Out of memory')
-            pw = PixelWand()
-            if(width > height and width > 590):
-                print 'Rotate image'
-                img.rotate(pw, -90)
-                img.save(iurl)
-        return soup