Hacker News with Generative AI: Time Management

Show HN: Look Busy – Realistic-Looking Fake Calendar Events (lookbusy.app)
Look Busy fills your work calendar with realistic-looking (but secretly fake) work events. Your co-workers won’t schedule conference calls and meetings, so you can get actual work done and reclaim your productive time.
Productivity, Time Management, Work-Life Balance, Software
7 points by yieldalarm 5 days ago | 3 comments
The Illusion of Time, the Overflow of Being (smolnero.com)
Time has quite literally been taken too seriously by humankind. Not just time itself — but all the layers we've wrapped around it: schedules, metrics, KPIs, urgency cycles. These clusters of fluff masquerade as structure but mostly serve to drown out the quiet. And in doing so, they distance us from a place of balance — that space between chaos and calm that’s vital to actually being.
Time Management, Philosophy, Productivity, Mindfulness
6 points by edgar_ortega 17 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: For those who want to stay informed without reading 10 articles (worldpulsenow.com)
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News Aggregation, Information Consumption, Efficiency, Time Management, News Summarization
10 points by x110 25 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen (github.com/Rukenshia)
This is the repository for an ESP32 based pomodoro timer. It uses an ePaper display and a rotary dial for input. The code in this repository will not be ready-to-use, as some assets and fonts have been removed. However, if you really want to you should be able to adapt the code to your needs.
Hardware, Electronics, Open Source, Programming, Time Management
315 points by rukenshia 28 days ago | 68 comments
Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git (doocot.sh)
Tracking time worked is unsexy at best, intrusive micro-management at worst. But I think understanding where time is spent lets individuals drive velocity through better choices. We can do this automatically with git hooks.
Time Management, Git, Productivity, Developer Tools
16 points by thisdougb 28 days ago | 7 comments
It Is Now or It Is Never (kottke.org)
It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.
Motivation, Decision Making, Time Management
30 points by wawayanda 36 days ago | 3 comments
Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped (notetimeapp.com)
Time Management, Productivity Tools, Notes, Software
193 points by gohberg 36 days ago | 132 comments
Control your attention on the web – Block sites on certain days and times (github.com/Bsodoge)
Focus Mode is a browser extension designed to keep you focused and productive while browsing the web.
Productivity, Web Browsing, Time Management, Browser Extensions
36 points by bsodoge 37 days ago | 12 comments
The Five-Week Solo Startup (taylor.town)
There are no shortcuts. You cannot build a successful company in five weeks.
Startup, Entrepreneurship, Business, Time Management
23 points by surprisetalk 41 days ago | 20 comments
Calendar.org (sourcery.zone)
It’s a while now that I’m trying to use Org Roam’s journal to track my plans. For each day, I’ll have a separate dated file, which I can open with a quick key combination, and if I need some info from other days, I’ll use my project management tooling like consult-ag to find what I need.
Organization, Time Management, Productivity, Software
28 points by shahinism 46 days ago | 6 comments
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions (theconversation.com)
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and health care expenses
Economy, Health, Education, Time Management
30 points by pseudolus 49 days ago | 11 comments
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 54 days ago | 21 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 60 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 65 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 68 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 69 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 69 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 72 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 76 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_ 82 days ago | 33 comments
Show HN: I Created a Pomodoro Timer (25min.work)
Productivity, Web Development, Time Management, Software
35 points by quantummint 88 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 91 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 102 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 102 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 107 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 111 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 115 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 116 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 117 days ago | 4 comments
Use of Logical Clocks in Databases (blogspot.com)
Databases, Distributed Systems, Time Management
16 points by emschwartz 120 days ago | 0 comments