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What is different about this versus navigating to the next page? It's this like a down vote?

There's a '/snip-story?id=...' request sent to HN when you do it. The response is the metadata about the story that is slipped in at the end of the page.

So maybe?

No, it's not a downvote, it literally just hides the story and comments.

Dang added it a while ago. It was supposed to help quell some of the rancor around here, and complaints about certain stories not being "HN worthy," etc. But this place is also subject to heavy feature-blindness so maybe not a lot of people noticed it.

So it's useful if your homepage doesn't cycle itself fast enough for your tastes?

Yes, but just reading the other pages would be more useful. HN isn't meant to provide a constant endorphine drip of distractions like other sites, because the average quality here tends to be inversely proportional to posting velocity.

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