why you visit Hacker News

I'm kind of addicted. I wish I could stop coming here, or at least have some self-discipline, but it hasn't worked. I'm aware of noprocrast and other technical means, but I just end up working around them to get at the website.

Otherwise, I come for the nuggets of useful information. I find them semi-frequently, so there is some positive to coming here.

Only the most relevant topics from the big tech news fanfare percolate inside HN; all the rest brings to the light a part of the tech web which would otherwise remain mostly unknown to me. HN us a community-driven curation process and it works because the community is great.

I'm interested in IT news and love to read the comments to get a feeling for the many different perspectives, pro and cons and experiences from insiders who worked with certain technologies. It feels genuine.

Two reasons: to keep up to date, and to find interesting stories for my (mostly) link blog [0].

[0] https://plurrrr.com/

This place reminds me of the very early reddit days, when it was still a great place to find interesting stories.