There are browser extensions that mitigate both of your reasons to delay reading the comments. I use hckr news (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-n

There are browser extensions that mitigate both of your reasons to delay reading the comments. I use hckr news (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...), which does the following: - Highlight any comments added since the last time you loaded the page with a little vertical orange bar. - Change the hckrnews.com comment count display to show the number of unread comments in addition to the number of total comments.