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I frequently don't follow the link unless the comments make me intrigued enough to do so. Partly because of the typically high signal/noise ratio for top comments here, and partly because of the ubiquity of paywalls, popups, horrible design and other JavaScript-heavy forms of user-hostility (or at least non-friendly or misguided) one finds in the average website.

The simplicity of presentation on Hacker News is one of its defining virtues.

>>eigenh+(OP)
Speaking of simplicity, the minimal amount of JS that Hacker News does use is worth a look for anybody who hasn't yet:

view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

>>eigenh+(OP)
I go through the front page and right click open new tab the link to the comments section for all the stories that seem interesting. Then I go through each tab, see if the comments are interesting, and only then do I click on the article.