Tell me about it. Was on a date last Friday and couldn't resist checking it when my lady friend checked her phone for the time. I showed her what I was reading and she was floored. Her attitude became far more amiable since she believed I was going to be the next Julian Assange. Thank you pg!

P.S. As a kid, I always dreamed of a secret online community where the world's smartest people gathered to discuss highly relevant and interesting subjects. When I saw Eliezer Yudkowsky reply to a post by Paul Buchheit, I knew I had found the promised land.

P.P.S. We need a poll that asks how many of us quit our jobs due to pg's work and/or HN. You'd have at least one vote from me :)

A good poll may be is what your doing with your life right now in a large way influenced by you frequenting HN?

I don't see how HN 10 times a day could be considered time well spent. That's a LOT of interruptions.

[disclosure: I picked 5-10 times a day]

It would be a lot if everytime you are reading articles and comments, I can say I probably check hacker news more than 10 times and most of the time it is just skimming for articles that sound interesting to me, usually I only end up reading a few articles/comment threads a day.

You could set it as your browsers home page.

I mean mine is set to Google, but I could always just use the search bar.

not necessarily--i typically click on at least one link every time, but if i only check it once every evening, i don't waste time on garbage links, and the comments are already mature