Is Hacker News a Waste of Time?
drawkbox: It goes at the core of human development.  Trial and error and results feedback loop, competition and community.Here there are a collection of pieces of information that possibly contain valuable trial and error results; filtered by what might be a very interesting group of people.  Also, competitors ways of thinking. Not to mention the other side of that the community aspect, so you aren't alone in your adventures.So naturally you are attracted to it as it is an attractor, simple due to the possible trial and error results you might also be looking for. Anything that can touch on that natural instinct of trial and error result feedback loop, competition, community or other embedded biologically binded behaviors will win. Video games for instance hits all these for instance, nearly recession proof in the sense that they will always be played, and attract people.