Quiet Hacker News (2017)
For anybody wanting to achieve the same effect while using the official HN site, you can use the following as a custom user style:  tr.athing + tr {display: none;}

This will just turn the home page in to a list of links, without any of the links for comments, upvote counts, etc. on each item.Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/MSsblMm.png