[stevenicr]

I agree with your statements here, and certainly what I do mostly is not what I do all the time. Especially if it was like health info I'd dig deeper for example. I think part of my method is also what threads I click or don't click - so the experience is going to vary with that selection biases as well.

when people mention mac only (big thanks to those who do this!) - I tend to just believe and move on.

with some projects I open tabs for the article and all the alternatives people mention bookmark to dig into later.

So my methods are not always this or that - but as a general 'way of HN' for me, these methods are what makes HN a great time saver in general, but not always.