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Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by freedomben »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #48
Aperocky wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.

Short Sleepers certainly exist, but they're rare. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc... But I've usually heard of them needing ~4 hours of sleep, not 2.

I had a teacher in high school that was like this. He got a job as a night checker at the grocery store to help pass the time and make a little extra money. He felt great when getting about 4 hours of sleep. He had researched it quite a bit and after talking to a doctor decided to embrace the extra time. I was always jealous.

But yeah I don't buy the 2 hour sleep thing, because according to this teacher it's almost always around 4 hours for people in this boat.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by onion2k »

qubex wrote: post #30
huhtenberg wrote: post #8

Get stuck after clicking on "Show". Just shows "Loading" and a spinner. Ah, nevermind - finally failed with "Network error".

It’s falling with “Network Error” instantly for me. I’m assuming we’ve collectively embraced it to death.

I got that message and thought it was a summary of my posts.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by pedalpete »

jannyfer wrote: post #29

About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150…

I only sleep about 4 hours a night on average (though I wish I slept more), but if you looked at my posts and comments they would fall within a 4-5 hour window (most posts happen when I check HN between 7-9am).

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by jannyfer »

pedalpete wrote: post #55
jannyfer wrote: post #29

About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150…

I only sleep about 4 hours a night on average (though I wish I slept more), but if you looked at my posts and comments they would fall within a 4-5 hour window (most posts happen when I check HN between 7-9am).

I plotted your comments/posts by GMT hour: https://imgur.com/a/9CNi2Ln

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by pedalpete »

jannyfer wrote: post #57
pedalpete wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only sleep about 4 hours a night on average (though I wish I slept more), but if you looked at my posts and comments they would fall within a 4-5 hour window (most posts happen when I check HN between 7-9am).

I plotted your comments/posts by GMT hour: https://imgur.com/a/9CNi2Ln

Ah, is that over the life-time of my being on HN? I've lived in 3 different timezones, US East, US West, East Australia, as well as spending a few months in Europe.

So, though it looks like I'm spending time on HN all through the day, this is not actually reflective of my behavior without taking that into consideration :)

Hope you didn't spend too much time on that, it's cool to see. Thanks.

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