My favorite HN moment was when we were all debating whether a crew could burn a shipwrecked boat for several years. Someone who happened to be burning a boat for fuel for years stepped in and confirmed it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552
Mine (in this vein at least) was when someone posted an article about optimizing FedEx's location and then someone who was involved with it stepped in and gave the real story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281466
Thank you for posting this!
Probably not the best idea. While they do tend to summarise well, comments tend to be filled with opinion - generally a better idea to ensure you form your own, rather than rely on a potentially biased third party.
The original article is also generally biased and filled with opinion. At least the comments might have a diversity of bias.
This is what I've been telling myself. Usually skim the article and then read the comments.
Just accept you're being lazy. Nothing wrong with that, though.
I also find that the discussions in certain comments/responses can tend to go largely off topic. When you're on mobile, instead of scrolling ALL the way down to the next parent comment, you (I, at least), tend to navigate away to other HN posts.
HN has comment folding. Activate it by clicking the minus sign next to the "timestamp" to hide the comment and it's children.
But the article is a biased opinion of a single third party? It's better to rely on HN comments where the discussion is open rather than blindly accepting what a journalist writes.
I do the same when I'm roaming and need to save bandwidth! Very efficient.
This + the fact it feels like every other article being posted on HN is behind a paywall