I can't speak for others here, but part of the reason why I frequent HN in the first place is that the articles are worth reading, and are necessary to read in

I can't speak for others here, but part of the reason why I frequent HN in the first place is that the articles are worth reading, and are necessary to read in order to have a meaningful discussion in the comments. Telling you what the author was writing about is easy. Conveying the tone and details is less so, and you'd be better off to read it yourself as the desire for comprehensive comprehension increases. Realizing this, when I see an HN thread, I evaluate its interestingness and decide if I'm going to read it, or if the title gives away the content, just the comments. HN is a community of diverse interests serving interesting content to those interests, and I choose which ones I pursue. I propose that getting a TL;DR will be worse than simply forgetting this article exists. A press release announcing Half Life 3 can be TL;DRed without any lack of information, but this article is more introspective and most of its value would be lost in truncation. I am beginning to believe that the high incidence of such entries is one of the primary factors separating HN from e.g. reddit et al. The other aspect of my desire to read HN stems from its comments. Whether by communal composition or moderation, I find the comments here to be of significantly higher quality than I typically find elsewhere. This is one of precious few well-used forums in which people who fundamentally disagree can have a meaningful conversation. This happens with the bar of entry being the understanding of the article or link in question. Where goes the quality of diving into an article, so goes the discussion engendered thereby. The TL;DR attitude is why most popular subreddits are unreadable anymore. I would like to apologize for the lengthy comment, and please don't take this as a slight to you or your curiosity. I've tried to point out why it may benefit you to take the time to dive into deep content. I hope you'll consider it in the future. It's significantly more rewarding than skimming links the way I used to. Also, I wanted to make this comment long partly out of spite. If you'll read this, but not the article, there's some serious cognitive dissonance at play in your mind. TL;DR actually read it.