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TBH I feel like this would damage the community/experience. Part of the "magic" is learning about a topic that you wouldn't normally be interested in, but which is presented in a particularly compelling, new, or original way such that it garners attention here. I like those moments.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and use GPT to create a variant of HN with GPT stories filtered out.

Maybe you jest, but this is the future of the internet. Except instead of filtering by "is ai related" it will be able to "exclude by is-toxic, is political, is a whataboutism, etc"

Maybe. But that AI would have to know you, specifically, very well in order to understand what you consider toxic, political, etc.

Personally, I wouldn't want such a filter at all. It would exclude me being exposed to things outside of my comfort zone. I think that would be an unacceptable loss.

There are some decent greasemonkey (or whatever monkey you prefer) scripts out there to hide them. Totally worth it IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050

Here's one featured here on HN.