I agree. HN often seems to fall prey to these linkbaity articles about trendy subjects. As users, we do a poor job of filtering for quality before we click the upvote button.

For articles like this, I find it more interesting to go to the comments. Sometimes I'll read the article first, sometimes I'll start with the comments and read the article if they are interesting enough.

But I'm more interested in what the HN community thinks about a post than the standalone post. I get to see the amount of people who read this sort of news who agree with the post, and the people who disagree. I feel I can make a more informed decision about the content from reading several comments than reading just one opinion.

Part of the problem is that "save" and "upvote" are the same thing. I am an obsessive bookmarker, so I "upvote" stuff all the time, without reading the article, just because the title strikes me as sufficient to into "Hmmm, look at this later" territory.

If there were a "save" feature (ala Reddit) that was separate from upvoting, I think that would help. Or maybe I'm the only one who does that and it wouldn't matter a bit. :-)