I wrote a Chrome extension designed to filter HN down to the more technical posts. It might help. You need to download/load it as an unpacked extension, due to

I wrote a Chrome extension designed to filter HN down to the more technical posts. It might help. You need to download/load it as an unpacked extension, due to the new Chrome security policies, sadly http://bitbucket.org/kevinburke/better-hn-filter http://bitbucket.org/kevinburke/better-hn-filter