My uBlock Origin rules use almost identical syntax (but there are a lot more of them, since I hide stories from TV news and clickbait sites):

https://pifke.org/hn.txt

(I also would love to know if there's a way to consolidate rules.)

dang has previously indicated receptiveness to built-in killlist functionality for sites/users/titles, similar to what this list accomplishes. My offer to build this (for free) stands, if anyone at YC was willing to provide access the HN codebase.