I find this interesting, because as some have pointed out here, there is a LOT of noise on HN. There's a simple fix for this though, don't click on the posts.

I went for a couple months without checking HN and to be honest I felt like I was missing something. I like knowing what the latest things are and what cool projects people are working on. I enjoy many of the well written comments.

I find that the things I learn about on HN aren't necessarily something that is helpful immediately, but something that I can recall when I have an itch. Perhaps we're implementing analytics emails for consumers at work and using PhantomJS is an interesting option. Or... whatever.

There is a ton of noise, I simply don't click on posts about languages any longer.