Hacker News with Generative AI: Time Management

How I Ace Midterms at a Top CS School by Studying 1-3 Hours (and Skipping Class) (rohan.ga)
I have a midterm tomorrow (actually)[0] and instead of studying I decided to write this piece on exactly how I spend as little time as possible on school while achieving decent results (top ~5-10% on tests).
Education, Time Management, College, Computer Science
29 points by ocean_moist 4 days ago | 19 comments
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate (corporate.watch)
We are 7 weeks into Q1, 2025 (week 7 of 13)
Humor, Time Management, Corporate Culture
392 points by steadycourse 10 days ago | 171 comments
Work-Life Balance as a Manager (yusufaytas.com)
As an IC, you close your laptop at 6 PM, log off, and forget about the work unless you are oncall.  As a manager, you check Slack at 10 PM because someone might need you. Your calendar looks like there’s no time to do anything and you haven’t had an actual deep focus hour in weeks. Sounds familiar? Welcome to management, where your time is no longer yours. Or is it?
Management, Work-Life Balance, Time Management
10 points by jatwork 15 days ago | 0 comments
Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months (marcgg.com)
This is a followup to what I wrote about how someone can have 5 times 1 year of experience instead of 5 years of experience. Note that some concepts and ideas will overlap as this is just a different way to look at the same question of career growth and pace of learning.
Career Growth, Learning, Experience, Time Management
80 points by kiyanwang 18 days ago | 49 comments
Rethinking the C Time API (oliverkwebb.github.io)
Out of all the components of C, its time API is probably the one most plagued with legacy cruft.
Programming, Time Management, API
68 points by oliverkwebb 19 days ago | 79 comments
Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
I think that one of the most important things to focus on improving is how fast you can work.
Productivity, Time Management, Efficiency
66 points by mefengl 19 days ago | 25 comments
Ask HN: How to stop taking on too many projects getting burned out? (ycombinator.com)
I am currently swamped with projects. I can't point to any particular project and say "This one was to much" but all of them combined have got me totally overwhelmed.
Time Management, Burnout, Project Management, Productivity
9 points by annie_muss 22 days ago | 23 comments
Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin (github.com/fdavies93)
An nvim plugin to enable creating periodic notes.
Software, Programming, Productivity, Time Management, Neovim
63 points by fdavies93 26 days ago | 21 comments
The missing cross-platform OS API for timers (gaultier.github.io)
Most serious programs will need to trigger some action at a delayed point in time, often repeatedly: set timeouts, clean up temporary files or entries in the database, send keep-alives, garbage-collect unused entities, etc. All while doing some work in the meantime. A blocking sleep won't cut it! For example, JavaScript has setTimeout. But how does it work under the hood? How does each OS handle that?
Operating Systems, Programming, Time Management, APIs
49 points by broken_broken_ 32 days ago | 33 comments
Show HN: I Created a Pomodoro Timer (25min.work)
Productivity, Web Development, Time Management, Software
35 points by quantummint 38 days ago | 32 comments
Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand.
Software Engineering, Time Management
51 points by alexmolas 41 days ago | 38 comments
Providing Precise Time over the Network (lwn.net)
Handling time in a networked environment is never easy.
Networking, Time Management, Synchronization
6 points by voxadam 52 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: How do you sleep on time? (ycombinator.com)
Hello fellow HN guys, My work mostly ends around 9 to 10:00 PM. I have this hangover of spending a few hours after dinner so it ends up me being able to sleep around 12:00PM-1:00 AM which is very late. What can I do to get to sleep early?
Sleep, Time Management, Productivity, Work-Life Balance, Health
18 points by rookie123 52 days ago | 29 comments
28h Days: year 1 update (sidhion.com)
It’s been a little over a year since I started living 28h days .
Lifehacking, Time Management, Personal Projects, Productivity
198 points by HAMSHAMA 57 days ago | 128 comments
Four Years a Founder: Time (akashtandon.in)
Learnings and anecdotes from four years as a startup founder - timing matters, accept the past and good things take time.
Startup Founders, Time Management, Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth
3 points by akashtndn 61 days ago | 0 comments
The one-page calendar that changes how you view the year (bigthink.com)
Each year, most of us throw out our old calendar and replace it with a new one. Each month, we flip our calendar forward another page, and if we ever need to know which day-of-the-week corresponds to a particular day/month combination, we have to either calculate it ourselves or flip forward/backward to the relevant month.
Time Management, Productivity, Design
8 points by Brajeshwar 65 days ago | 0 comments
Is your project on schedule? How do you know? (respectfulleadership.substack.com)
Is your project on schedule? How do you know?
Project Management, Time Management, Leadership
9 points by lkrubner 66 days ago | 0 comments
10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist (2013) (lesswrong.com)
Despite recent strides in my productivity habits, I still catch myself procrastinating at work more often than I'd like.
Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Management, Personal Development, Psychology
10 points by eamag 67 days ago | 4 comments
Use of Logical Clocks in Databases (blogspot.com)
Databases, Distributed Systems, Time Management
16 points by emschwartz 70 days ago | 0 comments
What did you do to save time as a startup founder? (ycombinator.com)
Curious for those startup founders out there, what did you do to save time so that you could focus on building your company?
Startup Advice, Time Management, Entrepreneurship
13 points by aga_ml 72 days ago | 10 comments
Ask HN: How Do You Juggle Multiple Projects? (ycombinator.com)
If you have a handful of projects you're interested in, do you cycle between them in increments- power through them in sequence, or approach them some other way?
Time Management, Project Management, Productivity, Software Development
17 points by rolly_polly 75 days ago | 15 comments
Ask HN: How do I keep up with work? (ycombinator.com)
Work-Life Balance, Productivity, Time Management
13 points by JohnBrookz 78 days ago | 18 comments
Ask HN: Any working Chrome extensions that delay loading of YouTube? (ycombinator.com)
Recently I decided to limit the amount of time I waste on youtube, reddit, etc. but blocking it altogether is too restrictive (sometimes it's useful - for example for background music or some tutorials).<p>There are several chrome extensions that supposedly let you delay loading of choosen websites, but:
Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Time Management, YouTube, Web Browsing
8 points by whatever0124 82 days ago | 4 comments
Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Productivity, Time Management, Management
255 points by thunderbong 85 days ago | 171 comments
Storing Times for Human Events (simonwillison.net)
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an event is happening. Based on that past experience, here’s my current recommendation.
Web Development, Time Management, Software Development
168 points by kiyanwang 88 days ago | 80 comments
Storing Times for Human Events (simonwillison.net)
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an event is happening. Based on that past experience, here’s my current recommendation.
Web Development, Time Management, Event Planning
13 points by vimbtw 99 days ago | 3 comments
When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
Can I please return to my vacation days in early October?
Project Management, Time Management, Deadlines
327 points by alexzeitler 107 days ago | 224 comments
Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for taming your email? (ycombinator.com)
Like many people, my inbox seems to be at a place once again where it is just too overwhelming to keep track of. Automated sorting into more folders won’t give me more time to go through it all.
Productivity, Email, Tools, Time Management
14 points by AbstractH24 109 days ago | 15 comments
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days (stretchmytimeoff.com)
In , there are 0 public holidays in 2024. Let's stretch your time off from 0 days to 0 days (how?)
Productivity, Algorithms, Time Management
358 points by zachd 114 days ago | 174 comments
Programmer Interrupted: The Cost of Interruption and Context Switching (2022) (contextkeeper.io)
Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact.
Programming, Productivity, Software Development, Time Management
10 points by ctrlaltelite 119 days ago | 0 comments