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I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN. Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.
Everyone, you're welcome. My last F5 must've jogged it loose finally.
This downtime made me realize (again) how much I appreciate the kind of interesting topics that show up here, the depth of discussion, and a general attitude of good faith that (most) engage with here. I realized how little of this I find elsewhere in my life - whether through Reddit or even my IRL friend circles. This realization saddens me - I feel like I shouldn’t have to rely on HN so much to scratch this particu…
> Perhaps I need to get out more.
Another way to look at it is that you have a particular set of interests and HN is the online outlet that serves those interests. There's nothing wrong with that, at all and you don't need to have multiple sources for it. No different than someone who likes to ride bikes owning one bike, or someone who likes to read going to the same local library every week for 10 years.
Couldn't possibly have been HN that was the problem haha
The last post[1] before this one was posted at 12:45:10 UTC. This current post was made at 20:30:55 UTC, so that's a gap of 7 hours 45 minutes and 45 seconds. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026548
How many times did people refresh to check this today? I did at least four times. I might have a bit of a problem.