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Agreed, the things I've learned on HN have helped me professionally in numerous ways.

One thing I find concerning about HN is I think there is an increasing prevalence of political and social commentary on the front-page. Those kinds of posts are worse than useless, because they displace potentially really good content.

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It isn't an increasing prevalence; it just seems that way (and always has). I wrote a thing about this a few months ago, with the intent of reusing it the next time this concern came up. Take a look if interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

A workaround is to hide the posts you don't care about and reload.

Right, but thats a manual process.

The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me.

I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a really long way to make the site better (for me, anyway).

Then check out lobste.rs, I use it as much more concise, more smaller scale version of HN.

Hadn't heard of it but it looks interesting. Send me an invite?

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