darkkindness

https://pastebin.com/raw/4NJKDeZj

I'm probably not the first one to do this. I wrote some CSS that hides all instances of popularity (i.e. karma and comment counts) on HN, lobste.rs, and old.reddit. What motivated this? It was my tendency to ignore possibly-bespoke submissions simply because they had less than X points.

Hiding karma might not be for everyone, but I'd encourage giving it a go and seeing how your behavior changes. Here's how HN front looks for me: https://i.imgur.com/AKmc6Ak.png

I named this user style after the beauty-recognition-disabling tech from a Ted Chiang story:

    "Think of calliagnosia as a kind of assisted maturity.
     It lets you do what you should: ignore the surface,
     so you can look deeper."

    - from the short story "Liking What You See", by Ted Chiang

Currently I load the CSS at document-start using Greasemonkey on Firefox, though pasting it on any user-CSS browser extension would do (like Stylish, Styler, etc).