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?