Make yourself busy with <i>truly</i> interesting things. HN is a cheap shot of dopamine but there are far more potent sources. If you're procrastinating on HN it's probably because you don't have yourself mind buried in something engaging enough.
If you think you're browsing a particular site too much, here's what I do.<p>Block the site on your work computer. You can use any method you want, I just edit my computer's host file, so the site won't load.<p>You can still access these websites on any other computer, your phone, your tablet, or whatever, but then your work computer becomes used for work, and if you want a distraction, pick up a different device.<p>I find the separation of work from easily accessible distractions quite helpful.
1. Go to your HN profile page.<p>2. Set noprocrast = yes<p>3. Set maxvisit and minaway to your personal (dis)liking<p>HN will now stop you procrastinating.
This made me chuckle but with so much interesting content, it really can be a genuine problem. I found myself spending a bit too much time on HN so enabled the maxvisit and minaway settings in my profile. I find that 20:20 is good enough to break up my sessions.
You can subscribe to <a href="http://hackernewsletter.com" rel="nofollow">http://hackernewsletter.com</a>. I hear that it helps some folks with the HN addiction.