I got stuck in an infinite loop.

Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loop

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neom 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah me too. Wake up -> HN down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> loop.

That was a few hours ago. I'm glad this loop is broken.

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squeefers 14 hours ago | parent [-]

sounds very much like an evil social media dopamine feedback loop. ironic given everyone on HN is so anti social media.... its clearly only bad for kids though i should add, silly of me to exclude such a detail

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bee_rider 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

HN is obviously social media and it is silly to say otherwise. It is just social media that occasionally has interesting stuff. The SNR is just slightly higher.

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ptsd_dalmatian 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guese developed this addiction on Facebook and now that I don’t use it, I come for methadon shot to HN

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neom 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been on this internet hit shit since the 90s lil bro, s' all good.

	▲	strbean 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can stop any time I want, I just don't want!

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HPsquared 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sometimes I'll catch myself absentmindedly reopening the browser and checking two or three front pages, seconds after having just checked them and closed the browser.

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notachatbot123 13 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a sign of addiction and I highly recommend changing your behaviour towards those pages!

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cheschire 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I feel like I need to avoid channelling Bob Saget from Half Baked when I say that is not addiction. That's a habit.

	▲	cbracketdash 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is a noprocrast feature in your settings to specify how long you can stay on for a single session and the frequency at which you can view HN. Super helpful!

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Rendello 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funny, I don't seem to need an outage to get stuck in a HN loop...

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mustak_im 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I woke up and was wondering if I’ve just woken up in hell!

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Imustaskforhelp 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I had assumed something very major must have happened for HN to go down, lmao and I even asked in some linux discord server regarding it asking if there is a major outage as hackernews is down

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ErroneousBosh 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not just me then?

"Shit, HN is down! Hm, I wonder if there's anything about it on HN?"

until stack overflow occurs.

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RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HN is how I discover whether other sites are down or not, so it serves a critical function, so of course I check it frequently.