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Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by abtinf »

skybrian wrote: post #47
abtinf wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, the things I've learned on HN have helped me professionally in numerous ways. One thing I find concerning about HN is I think there is an increasing prevalence of political and social commentary on the front-page. Those kinds of posts are worse than useless, because they displace potentially really good content.

A workaround is to hide the posts you don't care about and reload.

Right, but thats a manual process.

The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me.

I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a really long way to make the site better (for me, anyway).

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by drhodes »

ransom1538 wrote: post #16

To cure your HN problem on a macbook, open a terminal: $ sudo su; $ echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts

yep, I took this a step further and made a little bash script to automate it

https://gist.github.com/drhodes/c1ce517c1704d4daedef73259b0c...

supports multiple domains stored in ~/.selfcontrol

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by dberg »

throwaway413 wrote: post #46
breck wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who tests internet connectivity via HN!

Used to be ping yahoo.com in the 90s :-)

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by justonepost »

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…

Yes, though I do wish there was a better way to read HN in a focused manner.

Here's a little experiment: Set aside a scheduled chunk of time each day to specifically read HN. You'll find it's a lot harder to do this in a focused manner.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by etrautmann »

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…

I use this as my default connectivity check as well!

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by freeflight »

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

It's kind of super interesting how people are trying to "self-condition trough code", the socio-psychological aspects of this, especially in the context of the "attention economy" are also kinda scary.

A bit like biological weapon researchers trying to immunize themselves against their own weapons.

Sorry for the crass example, it's not meant as negative as it sounds, but overall it's a pretty good comparison.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by soneil »

zeristor wrote: post #34

You can like a story, and then look at your upvoted submissions from your admin page. You can write an app if you want though, but I like simple.

Similarly, I star things in my rss reader when I’m skimming, and then consume them when I have time to properly digest. Then unstar so they drop out the queue.

Works well, works simple, and works for many more sources besides hn.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by lunulata »

I think this is more the author's remaining twitter habit dying hard than a hacker news related habit. I like hacker news because it gives decent posts for focused reading rather than the twitter no-focus skimming or the reddit meme fest.
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