Hacker News Reader

Although I agree with your desire to filter out Hacker News based on your interests, I personally think this is On Topic here.

Quoting guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This story is related to an ongoing event related to genre bias on technology industry. As so, most people think it is on topic here (based on the number of upvotes needed to land on first page).

I agree. Almost every time I refresh the page, I see something political, and that kind of stuff is really better suited to Twitter/YouTube/Slashdot/Reddit.

There are a couple of filters / blocklists. Using the site search should find them.

Obviously it's a tricky problem if you want nuanced filtering.