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I am trying to find a post about avoiding the news. It was on HN last night
It seems HN has removed a post I was planning on revisiting. Perhaps it was too political. Anyway the gist of the post was one persons strategy for ignoring the news and not letting the constant stream of doom affect them. They were careful to point out this wasn't them putting their head in the sand as well. Any ideas what it might have been? I've searched the top 200 posts and it isn't there anymore.
- diggan 2y agoIs it this by any chance? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791428 - "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling (allthatjazz.me)" - 112 points by saeedesmaili 4 hours ago - 116 comments #6 on the frontpage currently.
- GimbalLock 2y agoUnfortunately that is not it. Thanks for the suggestion. I did read that one but the post I saw last night was more broad and covered general news instead of mainly social media.
- diggan 2y agoShucks. If you turn on "showdead" on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GimbalLock https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GimbalLock, then some of the lists (like https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active) still show flagged submissions, maybe that could help you find it?
- GimbalLock 2y agoGreat advice. I wasn't aware of showdead. Someone else already found the link I was after but I will keep this technique in mind in case I need it in the future.
- dekhn 2y agoProbably the post on jwz's site. I'm not linking because he serves up ugly images if you click from hacker news.
- k310 2y agoHow to survive being online. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785927 Zero comments, but I shared the source elsewhere. https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-being-online/ https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-being...
- GimbalLock 2y agoYESSSS thank you!
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoGeneral tip: few if any HN searches are better and faster than hn.algolia.com; the desired article is still there: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=How%20to%20survive%20being%20online&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Hint: I almost always use Sort By Date, not Sort By Popularity because I often have the same problem—saw something days ago, didn't read, but want to check out now