51–60 of 80 posts
They deliver the HN headlines that reach those many points to my Twitter TL.
[update] Then, if I click through to the HN post from the tweet, I read the first few comments at the top and then the bottom most comments. Finally, if I'm still interested, I'll read the actual article.
For longer articles I want to read eventually but know I won't get to for a long time, I use the "Save this page" feature of Inoreader[2].
Since I've started using Inoreader, I haven't gone back to any of these articles, but I'm ok with this – I tend to review the cache every 6-months to a year when I happen to have uninterrupted free time (like between jobs or on vacation). Previously I had Are.na channels called "To Read 1", "To Read 2", and so on.
[1] https://are.na
I use the RSS feeds ( https://hnrss.org/ ) for the HN front page and also for the Show HN (I find the average quality of all Show HNs to be surprisingly high - ever of those that don't make it to the front page). To read the feed, I use Feedly, that fetches pictures from the linked pages that sometimes give a bit more context about the submissions.
As a pro tip for anyone reading. Pressing "j" will go to the next article and "k" will go back one so you can really quickly skim headlines.
One pet peeve is that the RSS feed doesn't contain anything useful in the body so when skimming you have to reply entirely on title.
And I dont get involved in the comments section.
There’s enough great stuff that I wouldn’t find any other way to make it worth repeat visits.
And often the comments are much more valuable, like when someone has a link to a website or SaaS or software and the comments are like “this sucks you should try X” and goes off in exhaustive detail as to why that person holds that conviction.
I try to only read things that are applicable to what I'm trying to do now.
The rest, if interesting or useful later, can be bookmarked using tools like diigo, pocket, etc.