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Ask HN: How much time you spend per day reading HN?

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I was really wondering that how much time you spend reading HN stuff daily? There are seemingly quite a few interesting articles and if you seriously read most of it - it would not take anything less than hour? Are you also spending an hour daily?

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Too much probably, doesn't help that I am dissatisfied with my job. I'm going to have to go back to pomodoros for time management.

Hi, my name is Craig and I'm not a HN addict. I can stop reading any time I want. Really! OK, I have to go now.

Enough that

    0.0.0.0    news.ycombinator.com

lives in /etc/hosts which forces me to use it only on my phone.

sudo vi /etc/hosts is just a few keystrokes away..

Probably too much. I googled for something to measure the time spent in a tab, but found nothing. I would need it on phone and tablet too.

This may be useful : https://www.rescuetime.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-timer/ggnjbdfg...

I'm on HN way too much. Guess I'm addicted but there are often good posts and even better threads. And many like-minded people.

Sometimes, I try to slow down and when the HN urge comes, I head to some Reddit sub (programming, linux, etc.), they are ok and less addictive.

I also changed the hosts file once (definitely helped).

I probably average about 1.5 hours per day, spending most of that time reading the article and going to the comments mostly for further technical discussion. The submissions that I read are usually pertinent to my professional career and I somewhat consider it research

Way too much. I check it a lot more than Facebook. I haven't quantified it though.

I have kind of reduced it to 15 minutes as well. Earlier, I used to read everything. I see that there are increasingly long posts on biology and other topics that can be easily skipped if you read for technology news.

A lot less than the other sources, such as reddit/r/JavaScript. I am only learning to use HN. The fact that there are no "tags" to separate content streams (am I using HN wrong?) makes this source of information too noisy. I like to convenience of limiting my attention to /r/javascript, /r/node, etc.

Some days I spend an hour, most days less than that. I'd estimate that on average it'd be about 20-30 minutes if we include the linked pages I do click on.

Probably less than a few minutes on the comments section, but I do try to up vote and comment on links I've clicked on and found useful.

Rarely more than half an hour a day. I really like to read advice people give on Ask HN threads. Aside from that, I skim the front page and select a few items and discussions to read. I definitely read less articles than there are worth reading, but hey, all things in moderation :-)

Too much about 1 or 2 hours. Should be focusing more on my day to day grind of building software, managing team, and looking for clients.

This would be an interesting metric to include in user profiles eg. an 'hours viewed x.xx' under 'created'.

2 hours

only on the weekends. about one hour on Saturday and Sunday.

15 minutes

Usually one hour per day, but not all days.

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