Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by oblib » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

Some days I spend an hour, most days less than that. I'd estimate that on average it'd be about 20-30 minutes if we include the linked pages I do click on.

Probably less than a few minutes on the comments section, but I do try to up vote and comment on links I've clicked on and found useful.

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by splitdisk » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

Too much probably, doesn't help that I am dissatisfied with my job. I'm going to have to go back to pomodoros for time management.

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by miguelrochefort » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

2 hours

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

#14

Post by weavie » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:05 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #9

Enough that 0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com lives in /etc/hosts which forces me to use it only on my phone.

sudo vi /etc/hosts is just a few keystrokes away..

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by muddysky » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 7:05 PM UTC

I'm on HN way too much. Guess I'm addicted but there are often good posts and even better threads. And many like-minded people.

Sometimes, I try to slow down and when the HN urge comes, I head to some Reddit sub (programming, linux, etc.), they are ok and less addictive.

I also changed the hosts file once (definitely helped).

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by dimitri-gnidash » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 8:23 PM UTC

Too much about 1 or 2 hours. Should be focusing more on my day to day grind of building software, managing team, and looking for clients.

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by Keloo » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 9:31 PM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #3

Probably too much. I googled for something to measure the time spent in a tab, but found nothing. I would need it on phone and tablet too.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-timer/ggnjbdfg...

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by bobbba » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 1:08 PM UTC

only on the weekends. about one hour on Saturday and Sunday.

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by rpod » Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 10:33 AM UTC

Rarely more than half an hour a day. I really like to read advice people give on Ask HN threads. Aside from that, I skim the front page and select a few items and discussions to read. I definitely read less articles than there are worth reading, but hey, all things in moderation :-)

Re: Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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Post by cdvonstinkpot » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:19 AM UTC

This would be an interesting metric to include in user profiles eg. an 'hours viewed x.xx' under 'created'.