I use uBlock Origin for a banlist of sites and keywords that are repeat offenders for off-topic[0] HN posts: https://pifke.org/hn.txt

My rules hide the title line but not the number of comments/points, and sometimes I'll click through stories that have been highly upvoted, to see what I'm missing (rarely anything of interest to me).

[0]: I consider "off-topic" to be anything "they'd cover on TV news," per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. A lot of the blocked sites are quite literally TV news sites.