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Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by nobrains »

I love your mechanism to fund your app (or at least how I understood it), by letting people by credits to let them break rules.

You could tweak it so that every user can set their own amount per credit (so that the app plays fair to all income groups) and this way the user is satisfied and understands that the payment is both a donation to your app and a penalty for their instant gratification.

More apps should try this model. The key is to also let the user set their own penalty otherwise it will not work.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#92

Post by QuelqueChose »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #7

There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money. More…

HN is likely the only outlet I could even remotely consider falling under that category of "professional development", aseven time spent on TechCrunch, ProductHunt, Gizmodo, Motherboard etc. is usually just more of the same stuff I look at on Reddit but without the guilt of actually _being_ on Reddit. Consequently, those are the sites I've caught myself spending way too much time on without noticing that most of my intake of articles and videos is just fluff.

Any chance you could share some of those outlets you personally consider similar to HN?

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#93

Post by zaarn »

taneq wrote: post #80
smichel17 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Firefox, I disable autocompletion from browser history, but keep it enabled for bookmarks. So much easier to avoid unwanted side-tracks.

But Firefox's 'awesome bar' autocomplete is how I find things in my history. "I went to a web page sometime in... February? Or November? It was something about widgets... types in 'wid' Oh there it is."

Firefox is smart enough by now to manage it in almost 1 keystroke on average.

Even more fun, when I type "you", Firefox not only suggests youtube but also the github page for a small script that extracts the rss feed link from youtube channels and playlists. I use that maybe once every few months. It's amazing really.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by krysp »

kukabynd wrote: post #83
comboy wrote: post #35

I'd love an alternative frontpage view with different time weight. Something that you could visit weekly without losing any big news.

Have you tried https://hckrnews.com ?

I never use the true HN site other than for comments now, the hckrnews.com interface is just so good!

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#95

Post by jani-boy »

The way I've done it is schedule an IFTTT that will search for a post with X points. This then will be served to my Pocket account so that I can read it later.

By the end of the day, or while commuting, the Pocket app has links with X points that I can then consume.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#96

Post by tim333 »

breck wrote: post #29
LyndsySimon wrote: post #7

There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money. More…

Agreed. I haven't quantified it but I would ballpark I come across 25+ things per year that directly save me significant hours of work, lead me to much better solutions to a problem, provide a lead that would help me with investing/employment/helping a friend/etc. That in addition to the intellectual stimulation and enjoyment from the other articles is why I don't feel bad about spending ~30 minutes a day here everyd…

And more:

>"I still probably spend five or six hours a day reading," Buffett says ...

>Buffett typically reads six newspapers each day: The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The USA Today, The Omaha World-Herald and American Banker.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#98

Post by almata »

eddyg wrote: post #9

Impressive that you went "Android first" even though you were already familiar with iOS development! Kudos for that. I often click to read the HN comments first , because they are often full of insight and interesting links. (This is also why I read HN from a custom #newsyc channel in our work Slack that posts links once they hit 20 points: it allows time for initial comments to accumulate, and Slack helpfully keeps…

> Simply bookmarking the article itself to read later [...]

I actually send the HN discussion itself to my Reading List. So when I find some time I start with the comments here and then decide whether or not I should read the article. And tbf most of the times I get enough information here and never follow the link to the main reading.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by reitanqild »

zaarn wrote: post #93
taneq wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Firefox's 'awesome bar' autocomplete is how I find things in my history. "I went to a web page sometime in... February? Or November? It was something about widgets... types in 'wid' Oh there it is."

Firefox is smart enough by now to manage it in almost 1 keystroke on average. Even more fun, when I type "you", Firefox not only suggests youtube but also the github page for a small script that extracts the rss feed link from youtube channels and playlists. I use that maybe once every few months. It's amazing really.

Firefox awesome bar took a lot of (unfair IMO) criticism back a few years back.

I have the same experience as you guys, and on one occasion I think it saved me days of work by helping me recover a certain almost ungooglable resource I knew I had seen at some point.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

#100

Post by davidverhasselt »

eibrahim wrote: post #13

I fixed my addiction by simply signing up at https://www.hndigest.com/ and setting to only send 5 links daily. I usually end up just reading 1 or 2 of those if they interest me. PS: no affiliation with that website. Just a happy user.

Hey, developer of hndigest here, thanks for being a happy user, and great to hear that it's helping you :)

Anything I can do to make it even better?

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