> Compare with Reddit where the best thing I learned to do was to decide when I was 'done' and open the list of unread messages while looking away and closing the tab...

This is so true. I'll often delete a reddit comment a few minutes after writing it if I think it's potentially inviting some troll or person with shit reading skills to respond back negatively. Even the so-called "good" small communities have a couple people like that, which is enough.

Apollo has had a bug the past few days with iOS 13 where the mail icon doesn't light up. This has honestly been really nice.

I use a user script in chrome to hide my HN karma count from myself. Super helpful for focusing on what is important when contributing (along with a lot of constructive feedback from the mods over the last 8 years).

Is this publicly available? I've been looking for something like this.

Install Stylus or another css extension and then add this style filtered to news.ycombinator.com:

  .pagetop {
      visibility:collapse;
  }
  
  .pagetop * {
      visibility:visible;
  }
  
  .score {
      visibility:hidden;
  }

This would be a great HN feature actually, fitting in spirit with the existing settings (eg showdead etc). @dang, if you read this, what do you think?

If you use an adblocker like uBlock Origin, you can use the following filter to remove the top navbar:

news.ycombinator.com##.pagetop

I do a similar thing blocking it with ublock origin