I suspect it’s that this community is optimized for quality of content and discussion. And the ingredients for providing that mean cutting out the noise of a lo

I suspect it’s that this community is optimized for quality of content and discussion. And the ingredients for providing that mean cutting out the noise of a lot of other things. There is a tiny part of me that wants to actually navigate away from HN and to the referenced article (to actually read!) because this site is boring. The one thing I would improve about this site is thumbnail images. Thumbnail images act as a visual hash of the article that allow me to more quickly identify which links I have read without having to reread each post title.