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Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by mobilehnuser »

leetbulb wrote: post #86
mobilehnuser wrote: post #42

I've been working on an Addiction Blocker for this site and many others. It's not ready for primetime yet but I offer it as a preview to the addicted participants of this thread https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

Really cool that Kenney designed the logo. I've been learning game development lately and have found his asset packs very useful. Small world!

It wasn't designed for the plugin I just used to do a lot of game jams and used his art packs so they're my goto for placeholder art. Before I officially launch the plugin I'll get something more customized

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by rwnspace »

ma2rten wrote: post #79
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…

I'm on Hacker News since eight years. My life would not be the same without it. A lot of what I know I know through Hacker News. HN has shaped my world view. Over the years I learned about starting a business, databases, programming languages, meditation, web development, interpersonal relationships and many things more. Writing HN comments and getting immediate feedback through comment score has improved my writing…

> But over the years, I feel like HN becoming less and less valuable for me. I feel like I am wasting a lot of time here these days. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I just know a lot more about startups and webdev so there are diminishing returns. It's becoming more and more like addiction.

A good rule of thumb -- if you feel like you might be addicted, you probably are.

> I'm wondering what the solution is. I tried blocking HN in my host file, but I found worse ways to waste my time on the internet. Maybe a reading later app is it, but I doubt it.

I've struggled with this an extreme amount over the years (on Reddit and here and so on). The most successful strategy so far is to partition my hard drive and install several different Linux distributions, each with different purposes (currently NixOS: work, Deepin: casual browsing, OpenELEC: watching stuff). I've different emails, firefox signins and so on. It can be irritating, but sometimes you just want that. Getting pissed off - I mean really, really pissed off - about being influenced by websites which optimise for stealing neurons can be very useful.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by cptn_brittish »

barbs wrote: post #88
superasn wrote: post #37

I kicked my habit by installing a host block script in my Tomato router. Just added reddit and HN to blacklisted hosts (I know I can undo it but it's too much work and it disables ad blocking too). Now anytime I want to visit HN i have to switch to slow 4G and it makes me concious of my decision and slow internet also makes it less fun. I haven't visited reddit in almost 6 months now (used to refresh it every hour).…

> slow 4G That wouldn't work in Australia, 4G is considered fast for most of us :)

4G is quicker then fttp for me it's getting ridiculous.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by eibrahim »

davidverhasselt wrote: post #100
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?

Not sure. I Haven’t given it much thought. I guess it’s work well enough :)

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by davidverhasselt »

eibrahim wrote: post #106
davidverhasselt wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not sure. I Haven’t given it much thought. I guess it’s work well enough :)

Hehe, good news I guess! Just hit reply on the digest if/when anything comes to mind :)

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by lopespm »

caspar wrote: post #108
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.

Consider http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ - I've been keeping up using this for years.

Same here, for years. It was the best way I could find to consume HN. It does not require a newsletter subscription and one can consult it whenever he/she wishes. I normally consult it once or twice per day, and make a conscious effort to focus my attention on that task for a continuous time amount.
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