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Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?
I was really wondering that how much time you spend reading HN stuff daily? There are seemingly quite a few interesting articles and if you seriously read most of it - it would not take anything less than hour? Are you also spending an hour daily?
- chmaynard 10y agoHi, my name is Craig and I'm not a HN addict. I can stop reading any time I want. Really! OK, I have to go now.
- baguette 10y agoA lot less than the other sources, such as reddit/r/JavaScript. I am only learning to use HN. The fact that there are no "tags" to separate content streams (am I using HN wrong?) makes this source of information too noisy. I like to convenience of limiting my attention to /r/javascript, /r/node, etc.
- pmontra 10y agoProbably too much. I googled for something to measure the time spent in a tab, but found nothing. I would need it on phone and tablet too.
- Yan_Coutinho 10y agoUsually one hour per day, but not all days.
- gigatexal 10y agoWay too much. I check it a lot more than Facebook. I haven't quantified it though.
- facorreia 10y ago15 minutes
- noir_lord 10y agoEnough that 0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com lives in /etc/hosts which forces me to use it only on my phone.
- weavie 10y agosudo vi /etc/hosts is just a few keystrokes away..
- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y agoI probably average about 1.5 hours per day, spending most of that time reading the article and going to the comments mostly for further technical discussion. The submissions that I read are usually pertinent to my professional career and I somewhat consider it research
- oblib 10y agoSome days I spend an hour, most days less than that. I'd estimate that on average it'd be about 20-30 minutes if we include the linked pages I do click on. Probably less than a few minutes on the comments section, but I do try to up vote and comment on links I've clicked on and found useful.
- splitdisk 10y agoToo much probably, doesn't help that I am dissatisfied with my job. I'm going to have to go back to pomodoros for time management.
- miguelrochefort 10y ago2 hours
- muddysky 10y agoI'm on HN way too much. Guess I'm addicted but there are often good posts and even better threads. And many like-minded people. Sometimes, I try to slow down and when the HN urge comes, I head to some Reddit sub (programming, linux, etc.), they are ok and less addictive. I also changed the hosts file once (definitely helped).
- dimitri-gnidash 10y agoToo much about 1 or 2 hours. Should be focusing more on my day to day grind of building software, managing team, and looking for clients.
- bobbba 10y agoonly on the weekends. about one hour on Saturday and Sunday.
- rpod 10y agoRarely more than half an hour a day. I really like to read advice people give on Ask HN threads. Aside from that, I skim the front page and select a few items and discussions to read. I definitely read less articles than there are worth reading, but hey, all things in moderation :-)
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoThis would be an interesting metric to include in user profiles eg. an 'hours viewed x.xx' under 'created'.
- praving5 10y agoI have kind of reduced it to 15 minutes as well. Earlier, I used to read everything. I see that there are increasingly long posts on biology and other topics that can be easily skipped if you read for technology news.