How do I make sure I never miss anything interesting on hacker news?

Just obsessively visit every five minutes. Like everyone else who should be writing code.

First: Don't worry too much, it's bad for your health.

You can read some filtered versions like:

Best (less gravity): https://news.ycombinator.com/best

100points (filtered): https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

Last: As a public service, please check Newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest from time to time to pick interesting stories before they disappear unnoticed. It's nice to be the first to upvote a story and see it later in the front page.

Subscribe to the Hacker News Newsletter

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

If you use the Chrome browser or Android/iOS, install 'Pushbullet'(https://www.pushbullet.com/) and subscribe to Hacker news channel in it.

Pushbullet will send you a notification whenever an article on Hacker news gets more than 500 upvotes. Generally, such articles are interesting.

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