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You know the thing where you see something on HN, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it?

• photochemsyn 4y ago
  With HN, what happens more often than not is I see an interesting link, click on it, find some very useful information, often quite complex, which I then bookmark and come back to again later, typically learning something of value which I can then incorporate into other projects. There's really too much quality information disseminated here to absorb, so I have to pick and choose. Quality of information on HN is certainly far higher than on the other social media platform I used to frequent, Reddit, where even on the tech subreddits it was a dumpster fire more often than not, to the point where I eventually just deleted my account there. And Reddit's superior to Facebook and Twitter, based on everything I've seen escape from those walled trashpits into the larger internet.