Is it possible to hide topics in a category from the main list?

[Stephen]

Suppress from latest is now gone in favor of muting, although there is an unofficial plugin which reinstates it:

Suppress category from latest topics gone

We built a plugin because we have some clients depending on this functionality as well. @vinothkannans thanks for the pointers. https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-suppress-category-from-latest