One of the reasons I don't always read the articles and go straight to the comments is because clicking on a link may result in an ungodly amount of cookie popups and autoplay video's exploding in my face whereas the HN comments are always the same predictable, comfortable web 1.0 experience. Dealing with this is a relatively costly intellectual operation, if you will, and frequent web use has conditioned the cost-benefit tradeoff I make when dealing with links.