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Of course Hacker News will "win" this poll, because people who use HN a lot will be the most likely to complete the poll. It'd be interesting to have a poll which removes HN and asks to choose your first among the rest.

Experiment design is hard.

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Depression/Lack of Interest is at least giving HN a run for its money. Besides, not everybody who spends time on HN will think it's their biggest productivity killer. Definitely A productivity killer, but maybe not the biggest one.

Plus, for some people, Depression/Lack of interest can be an underlying cause for spending too much time on sites like HN.

Maybe this is a new feature. If HN polls > 90%, it will do the decent thing and automatically delete itself from the internet :)

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