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(Edit): If we had the ability to tag posts, and then ignore categories like politics, this might help. While American politics is generally fascinating (whichever side you happen to end up on), everyone likely already has their own means to get this. Some find it divisive and exhausting.

>>joshka+(OP)
You can already hide stories you don't want to see.

>>krapp+r
I think they mean tags come with the content and you can hide whole tags. Hiding individual stories requires you see the story to decide to hide it so you can't really hide ones you don't want to see rather ones you don't want to see again.

>>krapp+r
Only one at a time. HN could use some of the signal/noise tools that newsreaders had, like scorefiles.

>>joshka+(OP)
It's part of the ethos of the site that it isn't siloed. When Dan says there needs to be room for sites like HN, that's part of what he means: sites where we're all encouraged to read and discuss the same ideas. If what you want is something with tagged posts and categories, you've already got that in Reddit, at a much greater scale than HN, or in lobsters, if you want a smaller scale.