There are a lot of HN community practices I don't like so I feel your pain. For this particular trauma, though, there's a little [-] clutter-be-gone link at th

There are a lot of HN community practices I don't like so I feel your pain. For this particular trauma, though, there's a little [-] clutter-be-gone link at the end of the comment header you can use to collapse the whole thing out of the way.