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HN actually has an anti addiction feature, namely noprocrast, in the account settings.
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Huh what does this do?

Locks you out from viewing the site for a specified duration after looking at HN for up to a specified amount of minutes.

from the FAQ:

In my profile, what is noprocrast?

It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.


Trying by accident this feature is the biggest fear of any serious HN reader.



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