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Interested to know how long your twice a week sessions are and how far you go back in the pages? I come twice a day for 10 mins and then once a week going back
by AstroJetson 10y ago
Interested to know how long your twice a week sessions are and how far you go back in the pages? I come twice a day for 10 mins and then once a week going back to article 90. Total time for the week is just under 3 hours, but I feel I've learned something.
- II2II 10y agoIt may also be a question of how you use sites like HN. I've found that this site is useful for learning when I simply click on the headlines and ignore the comments. Yes, the comments are informative. On the other hand, I have found that reading comments is a behaviour that I have adopted to procratinate (rather than to gain deeper insight).
- erichocean 10y agoI primarily visit HN for the comments. My usage is as follows: 1. Scan headlines for a topic I'm interested in, say, geometric algebra. 2. Rapidly scan the comments for people linking to other media (books, blog posts, libraries, etc.) that are related to geometric algebra. I get vastly superior pointers to useful material this way than any other approach I've tried, and I'm extremely good at research anyway.
- pault 10y agoIt's dangerous to go alone. Take this: https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
- erichocean 10y agoIt's hilarious that HN conflates popularity with "best". So even at HN, the most addictive content is considered to have the highest value. Seems…topical.
- striking 10y agoThe way this usually works, at least in comment threads, is that usually upvotes end up being stronger than downvotes. So the most popular thought in the community ends up at the top of the page... and then usually, the most popular counter-argument is its highest child. It's interesting to see HN debate itself. The asymmetrical karma allocation can be a really interesting factor.
- dang 10y agoThe name of that page goes back close to ten years, when HN was created. That was a time when lots of people had more faith in social forum upvoting than they/we do now.
- pault 10y agoHi dang, I could swear I once saw a list of front pages with different algos, but now I can't find it for the life of me. Also, is there a "most commented" or "controversial" page?
- sotojuan 10y agoAbout half an hour on Sunday mornings and 10~ mins the second session, but I'm slowly making that as close to 0 as possible. One thing that's helping is Lobsters. Lobsters is super slow so if I do make a full switch from HN to that I only need to check it a handful of times a week. But to me, it's not so much about how much time I spend on the time but rather the why. I simply don't get as much value out of HN as I think I do. Most news are irrelevant and unimportant, and I haven't really learned anything too insightful like others said they have (sadly). Simply put, tech news boards apparently just aren't for me.
- tinbucket 10y agoWhat is Lobsters? I'm curious about the thing that's helped you wean yourself off tech news, but googling it hasn't helped.