Stop reading HN, start reading HN newsletter

Of course, there's always Hacker News Daily, an automatically generated list (RSS available) of the top HN stories:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

I particularly like the one aspect of non-repeating entries,

"The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 29, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:"

On an unrelated and related note, while I appreciate the effort that goes into a hand-picked newsletter, I also accept that I might end up getting sucked into a cool example of technology. The solution isn't a newsletter or even a condensed RSS feed -- the fix is self-control (which can come in different forms and is typically a mix of motivation, guilt, and software).

I just want to say that I subscribed to the newsletter, and it's great. Unfortunately it didn't cure my HN addiction; it simply allows me to keep up to date for those unfortunate days (working abroad, or else) when I missed some threads.

Actually, the "Classic" section even makes it worse, because it brings you to read old threads you missed years ago, or had forgotten.

My advice: HN newsletter is fantastic, go subscribe now! but don't expect it to free you from your procrastination, it will get you even more addicted :)

Anyone care to give it a review? I, for one, am all ears.

However, if you get distracted easily, you end up downloading 33GB of academic papers and maybe reading some of them. Or you get caught in a HTML5 version of Mario and there goes your day.

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Hm, I hadn't heard of hackernewsletter before. It looks like it's put together pretty well.

I'd love to see an RSS feed for it though. I don't really care to get newsletters in my email.

:) When I first stopped at Hacker news, I tried to find the RSS link. It was there. Then I thought of email subscription. Checked at feedburner. There was one feed being burnt, but had to email subscription.

So, I created one at feedburner and have been following it. It works with a charm, at least for me. If you want, give a try.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ycombinator/hackernews