I&#x27;ve drastically cut my HN time in the past few months by following this one weird trick:<p>Add &quot;news.ycombinator.com##td.subtext&quot; following to your Adblock&#x2F;uBlock custom filters.<p>You still get to read the articles and keep up with tech news, but you don&#x27;t end up in comment threads (unless it&#x27;s an Ask HN&#x2F;etc, hence why I&#x27;m commenting now). Occasionally I load up HN in a different browser if I want to take a break and read some comments but my idle browsing has been drastically reduced.<p>There&#x27;s lots of great content in the comments, but it&#x27;s also a fantastic way to waste time.