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It 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 co
by II2II 10y ago
It 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.