Ah, it seems you're suffering from a cognitive bias. ;) Some people on HN do not fit your self-reflected view of useful, busy and productive. Reading continuou

Ah, it seems you're suffering from a cognitive bias. ;) Some people on HN do not fit your self-reflected view of useful, busy and productive. Reading continuously is a good way to keep the mind sharp and moving even when the body can't do much. On good days I can type a few pages, but other days, I can barely operate a trackball to use the web. In addition to books, code and other tech/science/research news aggregation sites, HN is a real blessing. I'm happy to say I often spend all day here reading on HN. I'm physically too useless to be a real hacker or entrepreneur any more, and I can't contribute too much to HN, but someone has to flag the spam in the 'newest' queue so the rest of you don't have to see it. I actually happy to be your janitor. It's a whole lot better than not being able to be your janitor, and it's often the only way to say thanks for all the interesting articles and insightful posts.