I am trying to find a post about avoiding the news. It was on HN last night

[GimbalLock]

It seems HN has removed a post I was planning on revisiting. Perhaps it was too political. Anyway the gist of the post was one persons strategy for ignoring the news and not letting the constant stream of doom affect them. They were careful to point out this wasn't them putting their head in the sand as well. Any ideas what it might have been? I've searched the top 200 posts and it isn't there anymore.

[k310]

How to survive being online.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785927

Zero comments, but I shared the source elsewhere.

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-being...

[GimbalLock]

YESSSS thank you!

[DemocracyFTW2]

General tip: few if any HN searches are better and faster than hn.algolia.com; the desired article is still there: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Hint: I almost always use Sort By Date, not Sort By Popularity because I often have the same problem—saw something days ago, didn't read, but want to check out now

[diggan]

Is it this by any chance?

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791428 - "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling (allthatjazz.me)" - 112 points by saeedesmaili 4 hours ago - 116 comments

#6 on the frontpage currently.

[GimbalLock]

Unfortunately that is not it. Thanks for the suggestion. I did read that one but the post I saw last night was more broad and covered general news instead of mainly social media.

[diggan]

Shucks. If you turn on "showdead" on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GimbalLock, then some of the lists (like https://news.ycombinator.com/active) still show flagged submissions, maybe that could help you find it?

[GimbalLock]

Great advice. I wasn't aware of showdead. Someone else already found the link I was after but I will keep this technique in mind in case I need it in the future.

[dekhn]

Probably the post on jwz's site. I'm not linking because he serves up ugly images if you click from hacker news.