Ask HN: I’m addicted to HN, what should I do?

3 points by happyguy43 8y ago ↗ HN

How do other people deal with addiction to hacker news? I check it every morning and every night. I often find myself distracting myself with Hacker News during work too.

Hacker News seems to have been designed to optimize for new good content and I can’t help but feeling like I’m missing out if I don’t read it.

How do you all deal with this?

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marpstar 8y ago ↗

> feeling like I'm missing out

On what?

Have you tried blocking HN during certain hours, but allowing it during lunch break and late evening?

dang 8y ago ↗

The noprocrast feature was designed to help with this. It's described in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.