For me HN is definitely less valuable than reading a book (obviously) but a lot more valuable than scrolling Reddit or social media. I think you get a lot of k

For me HN is definitely less valuable than reading a book (obviously) but a lot more valuable than scrolling Reddit or social media. I think you get a lot of knowledge kinda by osmosis that you would never get otherwise. Like I have a pretty good knowledge of the programming landscape despite only having worked with a tiny fraction of the tech. Gives you more knowledge of “what’s out there” and “what to google”. But you could probably get 95% of that osmosis with like 10% of the scrolling time lol. In general HN is a good use of time, but usually I am specifically wasting time