For my part, I've found that a good chunk of technical blog posts (whether they are hosted on blog engines, personal sites or even pushed out to Medium) now ass

For my part, I've found that a good chunk of technical blog posts (whether they are hosted on blog engines, personal sites or even pushed out to Medium) now assume that they will be discovered via HN. And I cannot be objectively sure about this, but I feel that these blog posts have been increasingly targeted to HN lurkers. They may touch technically very good topics, but the aggregate content, in my eyes, has become shallower. It's almost like the HN crowd is being systematically baited with superficially interesting tech posts. (A very enjoyable exception: nautil.us - for me the posts are either entirely irrelevant, or readable and interesting with a high probability. I don't remember experiencing much of a middle ground yet.) So, when my time is limited, I tend to check the discussion before hitting the link. Usually the first few posts are enough to confirm whether the link itself is worth visiting or not. And sure enough, a primary motivator for this is that finding non-clickbaity titles is increasingly rare. HN thread activity and tone acts as a pretty decent bloom filter.