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I just configure the New Tab to go directly here, Ctrl+N for News
The ultimate productivity hack
Or, to be honest, a "more productive procrastination hack".
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This trick does not work anymore since I visited netflix :(
Using Firefox or Chrome solves this problem as you don't get full quality for Netflix on them, hence there's no address collision as you resort to using Edge (or else?) for Netflix.
Huh? You don't get full quality on Netflix in some browsers?
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You mean type 'n' and hit enter.
I black-holed news.ycombinator.com on my work computer by adding it to my /etc/hosts file, but my subconscious compensated by going to news.google.com often enough that now ‘n’ + enter takes me there.
At some point in time I drilled this sequence into my fingers:
ctrl-t, ne, ctrl-w
i.e. new tab, start typing news.ycombinator.com, immediately interrupt myself and close the tab.
These days I have hn mapped to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.
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I think I stopped using them when the browsers inexplicably lost their menus. I don't really understand why the menus went away from the top of web browser, since desktop screen space hasn't been an issue since the late '90s, even on laptops.
Firefox has menus on the top, unless the user hides them.
Isn’t it hidden by default? I installed Firefox on a new machine a few months ago and I could swear I had to unhide it.
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#55With a different registrar to ycombinator.com, this is likely not owned by Y Combinator, and therefore difficult to trust that it won't start being malicious in the future.
It's owned by YC now. We got it earlier this year. That's why it redirects to HN!
Does this indicate other incoming changes?
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#56This solves a longstanding problem. When recommending "hacker news" to people, they would immediately get suspicious. What's up with this weird address? Why combinator? It would immediately devolve into weird discussions. It's actually linked to Haskell Curry, who was neither Indian, nor Greek, despite this lambda thing. And no, this is not a new Covid variant. A real nightmare. But thankfully, all this is over now.
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I was just away from the Internet for 8 years. When I checked my bookmarks 99% of them were dead links. I wonder how many from Mosaic days would still be valid?
Serious question: were you in prison? If not, how/why did you take an 8 year break?
Close enough! County jail waiting for a trial.
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#58It's convenient, but I've developed muscle memory to just type news.ycombinator over the last 10 years, so I guess it doesn't matter much for me. When I first discovered the site, I definitely had to google 'hacker news' in order to find it consistently, however, so maybe someone else can get good use out of it.
You mean type 'n' and hit enter.
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#60It's been hckrnews.com for me for ages.. and loving it:)