I read most things and it makes me happy but when I read a bunch of whiny white men on Hacker News I feel sad. ;(
Such is life.
Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same and I've thought about this a lot. I so often only read the comments without reading the actual article. Surely the fact that so many people do this must mean there's an untapped opportunity somewhere?
Yes, I thought that, I have a note in my sketch ideas: "Extract comments from HN", normally I value them more than the actual article. They are important, like reviews.
Are they important? I do it too, but it seems to just fuel my inability to get through boring and/or long articles.
Sure they act as a filter at times, but sometimes I feel like I might be missing out on solid knowledge or something cool.
Even if an article has a lot of positive reviews in it, it's a crapshoot whether I go and read the article at all.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#33My anecdata: I don't read much on internet anymore aside from what's linked on HN and what I research for a specific topic. Plus a bit of news at CNN and a bit of Producthunt. I read about 15 articles on average and all comments to about 10 of them and scan some comments for the rest. My reading is batched around morning, lunch, and evening. I download few articles to Pocket for offline readin. During subway commute.
Why do you read ProductHunt? Honestly just wondering.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#34I'm not sure if the question is about reading habits on HN, or the reading habits of the HN demographic.
If it is the former, I middle-click 3-4 articles a day, and if they are also juicy topics, I middle-click the comments links as well.
If it is the latter, I read tons of articles a day (avg 20), some related to tech, but mostly not. I read in the morning, at lunch (very productive time to read), and after dinner.
Offline: I have subscriptions to dead-tree versions of Time, Harvard Business Review, and Foreign Affairs. I also have 4-5 books on the go at any given time, mostly nonfiction. I go through phases, and my last major one was statistics and category theory.
Online: Slashdot, Reddit, HN, Marginal Revolution, John D Cook, Farnam Street, Quora, and a bunch of data science related blogs. I also read articles on the getpocket.com recommended list, and I find myself drawn to reading articles on The Atlantic.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#35Most of my reading is off HN/Reddit, whatever catches my eye and looks interesting which can be up to 10 articles in a day, but often enough 0-1. I use https://bazqux.com as a RSS reader to keep up with the stuff I actually want to follow. Some gaming sites, LWN, EFF's deeplinks and the blogs of various products my company or I use. (BTW, I highly recommend bazqux. UI very close to Google Reader, very cheap and with…
What is a deeplink?
Deeplinks is an EFF blog. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#36I read 10-20 articles a day, don't really read too many comments.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#37I read 3-5 articles per day, but oftentimes, I read the comments of 20-30 articles without clicking on the actual article. Recent example: Article about Angular 4.0 being released. I don't care about the article, but I do care about the comments of the JS folks.
Same and I've thought about this a lot. I so often only read the comments without reading the actual article. Surely the fact that so many people do this must mean there's an untapped opportunity somewhere?
Yeah, it would be cool if someone made a bot to extract a summary from the article and post it as a comment to help those who have not read the article.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#38I read 3-5 articles per day, but oftentimes, I read the comments of 20-30 articles without clicking on the actual article. Recent example: Article about Angular 4.0 being released. I don't care about the article, but I do care about the comments of the JS folks.
Yea I do almost exactly the same. I am trying to make more of an effort to read the article as well though, as a part of me feels like going straight to the comments is lazy and/or a bad habit.
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#39I'm not sure if the question is about reading habits on HN, or the reading habits of the HN demographic. If it is the former, I middle-click 3-4 articles a day, and if they are also juicy topics, I middle-click the comments links as well. If it is the latter, I read tons of articles a day (avg 20), some related to tech, but mostly not. I read in the morning, at lunch (very productive time to read), and after dinner.…
What data science blogs?
Re: Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same and I've thought about this a lot. I so often only read the comments without reading the actual article. Surely the fact that so many people do this must mean there's an untapped opportunity somewhere?
Yeah, it would be cool if someone made a bot to extract a summary from the article and post it as a comment to help those who have not read the article.
Someone did. Or faked one. IIRC it was active for a few days but was told in clear terms to stop or be banned.
Somewhat related: I have been using the HN bot on Telegram. That way I could even catch a glimpse of wildly popular stories that have been flagged of the site :-)