I wanted to display 3 items from the list view but no more so I built a view with the list and set it to three columns and then used this jquery.
$(document).on('knack-view-render.view_403', function (event, view, data) { $("#view_403 div.kn-list-content .kn-list-three-column:not(:first)").hide(); });
Where view_403 is whatever view you are working in.