Ask HN: How many hours of sleep are you getting?

5 hours a night on weekdays and like 11 hours a night on weekends. I have figured out that I'm way more productive, happy and healthy on weekends because of the more sleep I get.

I average about 8 hour a night. I'm not the best at keeping a consistent bed time, but I won't get out of bed until I know I've had my 8 hours. Thus, my sleep schedule tends to drift later as the week progresses, and then I can reset on the weekend.

About 8 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. I lift regularly, so there's no point in lifting if I'm not sleeping and eating right.

Average of six and a half hours. It was higher for a brief period when I returned from international travel and my body had no idea where it was anymore. Other than that, I wake up tired, which I mostly attribute to breaking a REM cycle, since once I get going, I'm pretty much great until the afternoon. I think a siesta would do me well, though, but I don't work in a siesta-friendly world. So, coffee. But never after 5, or I don't sleep until later.

My take on it is that I sleep when I'm tired, with the asterisk that I have work in the morning most days, and that means I should try to be tired before 11:30p. But I also look at it like I look at treatment of my laptop battery - if I spend more effort worrying about and attempting to optimize the thing than it's worth, then that is effort wasted. The best I can hope for is good sleep when I am sleeping.

All of that said, sleep is obviously important since we all do it. I wouldn't make a habit of not sleeping so I could ship, but I also wouldn't let shipping get in the way of many things, like time with my family. Maybe my priorities are messed up, but they're mine.

Maybe. I feel that the context surrounding the number of hours slept is also interesting. That may be missing if this was a poll.