Hacker News with Generative AI: Time Management

Providing Precise Time over the Network (lwn.net)
Handling time in a networked environment is never easy.
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?
28h Days: year 1 update (sidhion.com)
It’s been a little over a year since I started living 28h days .
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.
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.
Is your project on schedule? How do you know? (respectfulleadership.substack.com)
Is your project on schedule? How do you know?
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.
Use of Logical Clocks in Databases (blogspot.com)
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?
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?
Ask HN: How do I keep up with work? (ycombinator.com)
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:
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."
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.
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.
When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
Can I please return to my vacation days in early October?
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.
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?)
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.
Byoyomi Explained (1997) (britgo.org)
"Cho Kisei, you've entered byoyomi. Ten minutes left." That must be a familiar sound to Cho Chikun, who goes into byoyomi in most of his games. In the Kisei title match, the time limit is eight hours per player. There are no chess clocks; the time is monitored by a timekeeper. When a player has used all except ten minutes of his time, the timekeeper reads out the seconds, which is the literal meaning of byoyomi.
Turn your phone or tablet into a chess clock (itch.io)
Playing chess with the kids today, we finally started to feel the need to impose some sort of time constraint on moves.
How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier (sleepfoundation.org)
A number of factors may impact your ability to go to sleep early. Perhaps you are not a morning person, or you have work or family obligations that keep you up late. Some sleep or mental health disorders, such as insomnia or anxiety, can make falling asleep difficult. In other instances, nighttime may be your only time to relax, and so you engage in revenge bedtime procrastination and stay up late, which then negatively impacts your next day.
The carefulness knob (surfingcomplexity.blog)
It’s easy to forget that there is a fundamental tradeoff between how careful we can be and how much time it will take us to perform a task.
When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective (jamesclear.com)
Audrey Hepburn was an icon.
ADHD and managing your professional reputation (optimaloutliers.com)
Paul Graham's essay titled "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it means putting off small tasks to work on more important ones.
Show HN: I built a task manager that separates "do" and "due" dates (apple.com)
Zesfy seamlessly integrates all your productivity workflow natively with your calendar. Here’s how:Session: Group multiple tasks within a single calendar event.Task Progress: Automatically update your progress as you complete subtasks.Step: Break down tasks into manageable, step-by-step actions.Target: Easily organize tasks by due date.Space: Filter events from specific calendar sets to keep your schedule clutter-free.Connect with us:Email: dev@zesfy.comReddit: r/zesfyOur Term of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day? (ycombinator.com)
Especially when you first started, when you made the commitment to your career, and when you were in-between jobs searching.
Year 2038 problem of Unix time (wikipedia.org)
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038,[1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse[2][3]) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
Ask HN: How did you improve your ability to do deep work? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a HN lurker, twitter addict, insta reel addict etc. etc. (On a new account because my old one is connected to my IRL identity)<p>I used to do many hours of work a day, and I am not able to do that anymore. I can do max an hour when before I used to do four or five without any issues.
Show HN: Prioritise your to-do list with Eisenhower Matrix, and break them down (zendo.cc)
Prioritise your tasks with the Eisenhower Matrix, and break them down