Hacker News Addiction

I check HN. It is an addiction. worse than weed. spend a lot of time reading through comments. Like you are doing now . Stop it , Go get some work done!

Why do you think I end up spending so much time on HN?

I’ve perused Hacker News almost every single day for 5 years. How do I break that addiction?

Spend less time on HN and you might get more done.

I have to block HN and Reddit during the work day. My problem is that I take just a second to check HN while something compiles and then an hour later I'm still reading.

I spend too much time reading HN?

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 skills. Even more significantly, I found my previous job which was amazin

I spend most of my internet time on HN. It makes me wish HN tracked this and, each time I load the page, prompted me with a "Do you really want to spend the next n minutes here?"

"I waste less time on mind-numbing activities like reddit" - what about posting to Hacker News?

I'm beginning to think that I'll have to give up HackerNews. It's too easy to spend hours per day here instead of working on my side project.