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Oh dear HackerNews, how dearly I love thou, but how many hours of me life has ye taken already? I’d rather not know

• colmvp 9y ago
  The difference that I justify for using HN over a lot of other aggregators in the quality of the content tends to be much higher. I still have a large backlog of repos and writeups that I'd like to study, all found from submissions on HN.
  • marcosdumay 9y ago
    > I still have a large backlog of repos and writeups that I'd like to study, all found from submissions on HN. :) I have one too. The relevant question is, are those things relevant for your work and projects? If not (that's my case), there isn't much difference.
    • dnate 9y ago
      There is. Watching memes all day is way less productive than reading about some obscure processor bug, or doing a tutorial in the newest functional js dialect.
• nine_k 9y ago
  Time spent on HN was very rarely wasted, and more than once led me to things that directly improved what I do for money. If HN was a subscription-only service, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. (It would have a number of downsides, of course.)
  • lostmsu 9y ago
    Nah, somebody would make a free version.
    • nine_k 9y ago
      A social site's technical implementation is nothing; the community is everything.
      • dang 9y ago
        True—but there are interesting feedback loops between the two.
• AnimalMuppet 9y ago
  HN is probably in my top two time-wasters. And yet, it also gives me genuinely useful information. It even sometimes prevents wasted time. I'll look at the comments first, and quickly figure out that the article is a waste of time. I find that out faster from the comments than I would from the article. Net result - time saved (or at least time more efficiently wasted...)