We develop a new method of discretization and anti-discretization of weighted inequalities which we apply to norms in classical Lorentz spaces and to spaces endowed with the so-called Hilbert norm. Main applications of our results include new integral conditions characterizing embeddings Γ p (v) → Γ q (w) and Γ p (v) → Λ q (w) and an integral characterization of the associate space to Γ p (v), where p, q ∈ (0, ∞), v, w are weights on [0, ∞) and