My current cure to news binge is to use RSS inside emacs with elfeed[1]. Emacs has the great advantage to be quiet by nature. I use spacemacs[2] more precisely. So in the morning I simply type `SPC a f` then `g r`. That's it.

And very important I use HN feed filtered by number of points (thanks to hnrss.org): https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500

[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed [2]: http://spacemacs.org