My 2020 new year's resolution was to stop doing that, and it improved my relationship with the news and social media.

Rubbish articles generate rubbish comments from people who just read the headlines, and by only loading the page and skipping the obvious blogspam you can filter 95% of the bad HN discussions.

I come to HN to read interesting articles, not to digest as many links as fast as possible. The discussions are interesting if done between people who read the article they are talking about; luckily you can easily tell when the person responding to you didn't.