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Re: Read less HN

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Post by johnmurray_io »

sean-duffy wrote: post #3

There is definitely a flipside. I wouldn't be nearly as up to date with tech if it wasn't for HN, and last summer I managed to get an internship at a startup that I would have had zero chance of finding had I not seen them in a "Who's Hiring?" post on here.

Oh definitely. I would just argue that you had to dig through a lot of posts that were less-than-beneficial and that a filter for an "Ask HN" would have been more worth your time. And that is just one form of curated content that I was mentioning.

Re: Read less HN

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Post by michaelwww »

I've noticed that a lot of writers in tech generalize their experience to everyone in the community. Several times a day I'm struck by someone who talks about his/her experience like it's a common experience, when it may or may not be. I think it would be safer and more relatable if the author had said "HN - Bad for My Well Being," but of course that doesn't sound as portentous.

Re: Read less HN

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Post by minimaxir »

Segmentation wrote: post #7

Still not nearly as bad as Reddit. Subreddits have value, but look at the front page of Reddit. Zero value. On any given day, of any week, month, or year. Reddit's front page is 100% wasted time. I demonstrate this by asking to myself: Ten years from now what will Reddit's front page look like? Answer: The exact nonsense memes and image macros posted today.

This is mostly because Reddit's choice of default subreddits are poor (and cater to the lowest common denominator): http://i.imgur.com/9FLPgsW.png

You have manually curate the subreddits you want, unfortunately.

Re: Read less HN

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Post by GuiA »

HN is an online community, where people go because they feel that it fulfills them in some way (maybe because they plan to do a startup of their own one day and reading about other startups makes them dream, because they like debating with others, etc.).

I suggest the ridiculous notion that you should do what makes you happy, and if going on HN fulfills some part of your being - no matter how irrationally - then go for it.

Re: Read less HN

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Post by slig »

Segmentation wrote: post #7

Still not nearly as bad as Reddit. Subreddits have value, but look at the front page of Reddit. Zero value. On any given day, of any week, month, or year. Reddit's front page is 100% wasted time. I demonstrate this by asking to myself: Ten years from now what will Reddit's front page look like? Answer: The exact nonsense memes and image macros posted today.

The reddit front page is a time waster, much like watching TV or messing with FB - there's no doubt about that.

On HN one can fool himself think that he's getting value, but that isn't always the case.

Re: Read less HN

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Post by philh »

minimaxir wrote: post #14
Segmentation wrote: post #7

Still not nearly as bad as Reddit. Subreddits have value, but look at the front page of Reddit. Zero value. On any given day, of any week, month, or year. Reddit's front page is 100% wasted time. I demonstrate this by asking to myself: Ten years from now what will Reddit's front page look like? Answer: The exact nonsense memes and image macros posted today.

This is mostly because Reddit's choice of default subreddits are poor (and cater to the lowest common denominator): http://i.imgur.com/9FLPgsW.png You have manually curate the subreddits you want, unfortunately.

> This is mostly because Reddit's choice of default subreddits are poor

Presumably this isn't entirely a choice: I would expect a good subreddit to get worse if it was made default. (And I've heard that /r/atheism got better when it was made undefault, but I haven't actually looked.)

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Post by Mikeb85 »

Segmentation wrote: post #7

Still not nearly as bad as Reddit. Subreddits have value, but look at the front page of Reddit. Zero value. On any given day, of any week, month, or year. Reddit's front page is 100% wasted time. I demonstrate this by asking to myself: Ten years from now what will Reddit's front page look like? Answer: The exact nonsense memes and image macros posted today.

The frontpage of reddit is what you make it. Get rid of the crap, subscribe to subreddits you actually like, and you're good to go. There are some decent subreddits...

Re: Read less HN

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Post by apierre »

My girlfriend is reading the Daily Mail like I read Hacker News. I don't know which website is worse for our well being but I try to read the day best voted submissions and it is enough to keep me updated with everything else.
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