My current cure to news binge is to use RSS inside emacs with elfeed[1]. Emacs has the great advantage to be quiet by nature. I use spacemacs[2] more precisely. So in the morning I simply type `SPC a f` then `g r`. That's it.
HN itself can filter by the points, afaik. Search for “Undocumented Hacker News”, it's mentioned there among other features. However, that's on the site—dunno about the feed.