[arendtio]

For me, HN counts too. Yes, the quality is different compared to classical news pages, but I think it serves the same desire to find something new.

From my perspective, giving in to this desire is part of the problem. When I start my day consuming content, the whole day becomes a lot less productive (concentrating becomes very hard). But if I start the day engaging my brain in a concentrated mode, the first few hours become very productive.

So my solution for avoiding to constantly visit HN in the search for something new, is that I have a new tab page in my browser, that lists, the top 3 HN news from the best list, if I haven't read them already. That way I fight the fear of missing out.

Maybe I should add that it always shows an empty list for the first 12 hours of the day ;-)