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We don't spend our time on HN

• itsthecourier 11y ago
  Oh the paradox
• forkLding 11y ago
  Truth
  • gdy 11y ago
    Like never
• honksillet 11y ago
  I found that I can skim HN without getting sucked in hours. Reddit however I have had to block in /etc/hosts .
  • noir_lord 11y ago
    largely the same (also have twitter and facebook blocked in hosts file, if I want to check them I use my phone, it's less convenient so I end up spending less time on either). I think it's because HN only has "one" frontpage which changes relatively slowly rather than each subreddit I track, some of which change very rapidly. Also half the stuff on the frontpage isn't relevant or isn't something I'm interested in so I tend not to disappear down the rabbit hole so much.
  • EvanPlaice 11y ago
    Same here. My old job had a very feast or famine tempo which ended up with me getting stuck in a nasty facebook + reddit + arstechnica feedback loop between the feasts. Blocking all 3 via /etc/hosts broke any interest I had in FB and Ars but I eventually added Reddit back to the list permanently.