[manbitesdog]

TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

[ectospheno]

I learn more reading the comments here than anywhere else. Thanks everyone for my addiction.

[AndrewKemendo]

It just reinforces for me that addiction is a human problem not a problem with technology

I know dang basically works tirelessly to not change the format in order to not induce those addictive patterns

but yet here we all are

[chistev]

It's a website with the smartest people in the world. The level of conversations here are unrivaled in internet communities.

It's understandable to be addicted. Lol.

I visit this place multiple times a day.

[dzink]

This one is at least healthy-ish for the mind. I’d much rather hacker news than any other news. Social Media is an emotional rage-bait cesspool these days. If it’s not for Hacker News those of us who abstain from the rest would be living in the dark.

[PurpleRamen]

But, would the addiction become worse if HN changed, or would there be a point where they could cure it?

[directmusic]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. If I type 'n' into any browser it autocompletes to HN.

[embedding-shape]

Save typing hundreds of letters per day, and replace about:newtab with news.ycombinator.com, now you can just do CTRL+T :)

[geocrasher]

I had the same thing for Slashdot.org for many, many years. Both the reflex and the browser autocomplete. I still miss the old /. It was like HN + Hackaday + Usenet.

[1shooner]

If you're looking to put the brakes on that, I've used LeechBlock to add a 5-second timer to opening a new HN window (along with other block schedules). The timer even fails if it loses focus, so it really helps slow you down.

https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

[embedding-shape]

    echo '127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Does the trick as well :) For bonus points (and so you can't workaround it with your phone), do it on your router/switch instead.

You'll still open new tabs and go to HN, but you'll be reminded quickly, and every day can be downtime day \o/ (for you, personally)

[mgarciaisaia]

I've made https://deja.de.hueve.ar/hn so it snapshots the frontpage once per day - that way, I now there won't be new updates during the rest of the day, and the dopamine addiction goes down.

[squeefers]

so youve got the willpower to do something about it but not enough to just stop doing it?

[jstummbillig]

I say. Vibe coded 4 apps once I got past that, on my way to half a billion in ARR already.

[wincy]

I’ve turned on no procrast mode and set it to ten minutes per hour. Helped me a lot!

[HanClinto]

What are you using to control this?

[thesurlydev]

Same! Right there with "every day must begin with coffee"

[lysace]

⌘-T, N, <RET>

Did it like 5 times during that 1h-ish outage. :(

[cbracketdash]

There 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!

[ChrisMarshallNY]

So do I, but it was such a shock that I just passed out, and when I woke up, it was back up.

[ZuoCen_Liu]

Admirable~

[locknitpicker]

> TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

You mean it's not your homepage?

[yigithan]

I stopped using google.com for Internet access check, I now use HN.

[ErroneousBosh]

Do you log into things and reflexively type "ls", too?

[kevin061]

I did not know how addicted I was to HN until today lol

[nottorp]

What? You mean you ... close the HN tab?

[selectnull]

I already knew that. :)

[numpad0]

obligatory: https://xkcd.com/477/