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Ask HN: How much time do you spend on HN a week?

9 points by processing 12y ago

guybrushT 12y ago
An unhealthy amount of time. If I have to quantify - then I'd say about 8 hours. Reading the comments, some of which are super insightful is addictive.
bradleysmith 12y ago
about an hour a day.
ShaneCurran 12y ago
I couldn't put an exact number on it, but too much.
coreymgilmore 12y ago
Too much. But thats why maxvisit and minaway are for!
danielforsyth 12y ago
This would make a pretty cool (depressing) app.
ASquare 12y ago
What coreygilmore said :)
wikiblinks 12y ago
Hi, nice question. My daily average would be 4 to 6 hours, but not on one go ;) Is there an HN App??!!
abimaelmartell 12y ago
I always have a HN tab on my browser
happyscrappy 12y ago
Close to a week!
orky56 12y ago
1-2 hours a day. Obviously you are not asking this question as though time on HN is wasted but it's important to know how my time breaks down. 0:45 General browsing: HN is a relevant news source for some subjects that I care about. I am entertained and happen to learn some thing along the way. Although I am not on the HN website the entirety of this period, I am reading in-depth article through links which HN provided. 0:45 Targeted learning: As a new hacker, I find HN's current article and those from the archive invaluable resources for understanding the community's response to new frameworks, technologies, etc. I use HN as a supplemental textbook to learn about use cases and some nuggets of wisdom 0:30 Giving back: I hate to only consume content. I'd rather have a seed:leach ratio of at least 0.33. This is my half selfish, half altruistic way of bettering myself and hopefully helping others. That's also a way of forcing myself to internalize my experiences and provide some analysis.
bluerail 12y ago
3 - 4 hours a day.. It's too much, but also i am kind of social shy and new in this dev world., so, surfing HN is a big help to understand the community, what's going on around, and who knows that would get me out of this strange shyness i have..
tannerj 12y ago
Probably about 1-2 hours. I used to use the maxvisit/minaway feature, but I found myself cheating the system. I'd open a new browser that wasn't logged into my account/open multiple tabs in rapid succession to read after I got locked out. So I stopped using that and now just guilt myself into logging off.
pallavkaushish 12y ago
Just checked my RescueTime account, spent about 2.5 hours last week on HN which accounts for about 6% of my total time spent on laptop.
2D 12y ago
1/2hr a day, but probably lying to myself and underestimating.
kinj28 12y ago
we use teamgum.com in our startup where me & my 2 colleagues are very much regular on HN. We end up sharing a lot of interesting links. This makes curation of content far more better & time saving for us. Just to answer your question - a good 30 mins additional on HN platform works very well for me to check on things that we may have missed out.

9 points by processing 12y ago

An unhealthy amount of time. If I have to quantify - then I'd say about 8 hours. Reading the comments, some of which are super insightful is addictive.

bradleysmith 12y ago

about an hour a day.

ShaneCurran 12y ago

I couldn't put an exact number on it, but too much.

coreymgilmore 12y ago

Too much. But thats why maxvisit and minaway are for!

danielforsyth 12y ago

This would make a pretty cool (depressing) app.

ASquare 12y ago

What coreygilmore said :)

wikiblinks 12y ago

Hi, nice question. My daily average would be 4 to 6 hours, but not on one go ;) Is there an HN App??!!

abimaelmartell 12y ago

I always have a HN tab on my browser

happyscrappy 12y ago

Close to a week!

orky56 12y ago

1-2 hours a day. Obviously you are not asking this question as though time on HN is wasted but it's important to know how my time breaks down. 0:45 General browsing: HN is a relevant news source for some subjects that I care about. I am entertained and happen to learn some thing along the way. Although I am not on the HN website the entirety of this period, I am reading in-depth article through links which HN provided. 0:45 Targeted learning: As a new hacker, I find HN's current article and those from the archive invaluable resources for understanding the community's response to new frameworks, technologies, etc. I use HN as a supplemental textbook to learn about use cases and some nuggets of wisdom 0:30 Giving back: I hate to only consume content. I'd rather have a seed:leach ratio of at least 0.33. This is my half selfish, half altruistic way of bettering myself and hopefully helping others. That's also a way of forcing myself to internalize my experiences and provide some analysis.

bluerail 12y ago

3 - 4 hours a day.. It's too much, but also i am kind of social shy and new in this dev world., so, surfing HN is a big help to understand the community, what's going on around, and who knows that would get me out of this strange shyness i have..

tannerj 12y ago

Probably about 1-2 hours. I used to use the maxvisit/minaway feature, but I found myself cheating the system. I'd open a new browser that wasn't logged into my account/open multiple tabs in rapid succession to read after I got locked out. So I stopped using that and now just guilt myself into logging off.

pallavkaushish 12y ago

Just checked my RescueTime account, spent about 2.5 hours last week on HN which accounts for about 6% of my total time spent on laptop.

2D 12y ago

1/2hr a day, but probably lying to myself and underestimating.

kinj28 12y ago

we use teamgum.com in our startup where me & my 2 colleagues are very much regular on HN. We end up sharing a lot of interesting links. This makes curation of content far more better & time saving for us. Just to answer your question - a good 30 mins additional on HN platform works very well for me to check on things that we may have missed out.