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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? by alfiedotwtf on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:52PM (#23941721)
> “Who decided that this was important to you, and why did you let them decide that?”

Thank you for that comment... I'm now going to turn on my news blackhole hosts file, which I disabled long ago. I remember being far more content back then so I'm not sure why I reverted back.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? by user00012-ab on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:22PM (#23942071)
I use the leechblock plugin and have it redirect any site like twitter/reddit/hn to my todo list instead. I also have it setup so I can only view hackernews on Fridays so I'm not constantly loading it.

I also subscribe to https://hackernewsletter.com/ which is a list of all the interesting articles from hacker news from that week. (it comes out on Friday, thus I unblock on the site on my computer on Fridays)

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? by alfiedotwtf on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:49PM (#23945976)
> to my todo list instead

Ha! That's awesome. That's an in-your-face "hey you, focus!"

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