Unfortunately many headlines stopped being informative with the rise of clickbait. One of HN's biggest problems is the headline-only format, as opposed to Slashdot for instance. I mostly choose what to click from an HN Twitter bot since Twitter shows short preview blurbs for many links. This is also a strength of the linked site compared to plain HN. As for the newspaper layout, yeah, that's a gimmick I don't need either.