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I got stuck in an infinite loop. Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loo
by Elfener 10mo ago
I got stuck in an infinite loop.
Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loop
- neom 10mo agoYeah me too. Wake up -> HN down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> loop. That was a few hours ago. I'm glad this loop is broken.
- squeefers 10mo agosounds very much like an evil social media dopamine feedback loop. ironic given everyone on HN is so anti social media.... its clearly only bad for kids though i should add, silly of me to exclude such a detail
- neom 10mo agoI've been on this internet hit shit since the 90s lil bro, s' all good.
- strbean 10mo agoI can stop any time I want, I just don't want!
- bee_rider 10mo agoHN is obviously social media and it is silly to say otherwise. It is just social media that occasionally has interesting stuff. The SNR is just slightly higher.
- ptsd_dalmatian 10mo agoI guese developed this addiction on Facebook and now that I don’t use it, I come for methadon shot to HN
- HPsquared 10mo agoSometimes I'll catch myself absentmindedly reopening the browser and checking two or three front pages, seconds after having just checked them and closed the browser.
- notachatbot123 10mo agoThat's a sign of addiction and I highly recommend changing your behaviour towards those pages!
- cheschire 10mo agoI feel like I need to avoid channelling Bob Saget from Half Baked when I say that is not addiction. That's a habit.
- cbracketdash 10mo agoThere is a noprocrast feature in your settings to specify how long you can stay on for a single session and the frequency at which you can view HN. Super helpful!
- notachatbot123 10mo agooh interesting (honestly!), how is that it distinguished?
- cheschire 10mo agoDon’t let me distract from this learning opportunity with my armchair expertise. There are a lot of articles out there for this exact topic, but here’s one that’s pretty good. https://relevancerecovery.com/habit-vs-addiction/ https://relevancerecovery.com/habit-vs-addiction/
- mustak_im 10mo agoI woke up and was wondering if I’ve just woken up in hell!
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 10mo agoHN is how I discover whether other sites are down or not, so it serves a critical function, so of course I check it frequently. /s
- Imustaskforhelp 10mo agoYeah, I had assumed something very major must have happened for HN to go down, lmao and I even asked in some linux discord server regarding it asking if there is a major outage as hackernews is down
- Rendello 10mo agoFunny, I don't seem to need an outage to get stuck in a HN loop...
- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoNot just me then? "Shit, HN is down! Hm, I wonder if there's anything about it on HN?" until stack overflow occurs.