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A workaround is to hide the posts you don't care about and reload.
Right, but thats a manual process. The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me. I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a really long way to make the site better (for me, anyway).
I believe Chrome's auto-complete has a lot to do with how many times I check HN and other websites. It's automatic... I open a new tab and three key strokes and I'm here. Does anyone know of an existing way to disable auto-complete just for some websites? I still need it for work related stuff, but I bet that if I had to type everything all the time it would be easier to prevent constant checks.
You say you open a new tab and then three keystrokes you're there. Well, My _four_ keystrokes include opening the new tab.
Depress CTRL; T; release CTRL; N; Return.
Or I could say it's three "keyboard phrases" by saying it's ^T N Return, but that feels like cheating.
TL;DR, "n" fully autocompletes to HN.
At one point adding a "/" at the end of the URL (autocomplete just filled in the domain with no trailing "/") would complete to "/best", but I seem to have to do "/b" now.
Anyone else here use the noprocrast setting built in to HN? Surprise not to see it mentioned I have my HN set up so that I need 3 hours between each 20m visit.
I believe Chrome's auto-complete has a lot to do with how many times I check HN and other websites. It's automatic... I open a new tab and three key strokes and I'm here. Does anyone know of an existing way to disable auto-complete just for some websites? I still need it for work related stuff, but I bet that if I had to type everything all the time it would be easier to prevent constant checks.
However, you can delete autocomplete entries by highlighting them with arrow keys and then using Shift+Delete. (Contrary to intuition, this will not put them in your clipboard.) I'm not sure where this started but I remember using it in Firefox about 10 years ago as well.
I believe Chrome's auto-complete has a lot to do with how many times I check HN and other websites. It's automatic... I open a new tab and three key strokes and I'm here. Does anyone know of an existing way to disable auto-complete just for some websites? I still need it for work related stuff, but I bet that if I had to type everything all the time it would be easier to prevent constant checks.
I think there can also be an issue with always saving things to read later. I often end up saving more articles to pocket than I actually end up reading. It may be a good idea to reduce overall "unfocused" browse-and-click time too...
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Right, but thats a manual process. The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me. I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a really long way to make the site better (for me, anyway).
Then check out lobste.rs, I use it as much more concise, more smaller scale version of HN.
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Agreed. I haven't quantified it but I would ballpark I come across 25+ things per year that directly save me significant hours of work, lead me to much better solutions to a problem, provide a lead that would help me with investing/employment/helping a friend/etc. That in addition to the intellectual stimulation and enjoyment from the other articles is why I don't feel bad about spending ~30 minutes a day here everyd…
I’m glad I’m not the only one who tests internet connectivity via HN!
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Agreed. I haven't quantified it but I would ballpark I come across 25+ things per year that directly save me significant hours of work, lead me to much better solutions to a problem, provide a lead that would help me with investing/employment/helping a friend/etc. That in addition to the intellectual stimulation and enjoyment from the other articles is why I don't feel bad about spending ~30 minutes a day here everyd…
I’m glad I’m not the only one who tests internet connectivity via HN!