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I dunno, HN can still be very addictive if you don’t have much else going on to distract you. It’s not manipulating you at a micro level in the same way as Facebook properties, but the rules certainly lead to an addictive kind of discourse that probably feels much more valuable than it really is. It’s information junk food, maybe more like the conventional news than social media. It’s not obvious to me that it provides me more value than Instagram.