https://pastebin.com/raw/4NJKDeZj<p>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 <i>HN, lobste.rs, and old.reddit</i>. What motivated this? It was my tendency to ignore possibly-bespoke submissions simply because they had less than X points.<p>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<p>I named this user style after the beauty-recognition-disabling tech from a Ted Chiang story:<p><pre><code> "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
</code></pre>
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).