[ex3xu]

I do have phases where I add HN to my /etc/hosts file, but randomly I come across useful insights on hacker news, so I haven't quite taken the step of quitting completely. But if I see an interesting article during a period where I should be working, I've taken to using pinboard's "read later" function and then binging articles all at once when I get to the point where I feel as though I'm not going to produce any more good work for the day. I'm sure pocket, papaly, raindrop.io and other bookmarking services probably have similar functions, though I haven't used them myself.

If the cold turkey route would be better for your use case, you can try the blocking techniques from this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15309393

[mmsimanga]

Thanks for the HN link. That will be the last HN article I read for this week :-).