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.<p>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.<p>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<p>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.
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.
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..
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.
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.<p>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.