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Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by distortedsignal » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #24

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.

It would require discipline, but you could only read HN in incognito/private mode. Delete your history for a fresh start. I do this on my phone - it's not as helpful as I thought it would be.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by bunchhieng » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

hehe. I always read every single link on the front page every morning. check this out: https://github.com/Bunchhieng/hnreader

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by clircle » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

Cool, I use hnrss to generate an rss feed of stories with more than 30 comments. Works well on every device.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by zeristor » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

You can like a story, and then look at your upvoted submissions from your admin page.

You can write an app if you want though, but I like simple.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by comboy » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:54 PM UTC

I'd love an alternative frontpage view with different time weight. Something that you could visit weekly without losing any big news.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by r00fus » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 9:00 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #24

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.

Does Chrome auto-complete rely on history? If so, periodically scripting a purge on the history file [1] may selectively gimp your autocomplete as required. Downside, you lose your history - won't find that great tip/info you found but didn't bother to bookmark.

Personally, I like tools that prevent me from resolving HN/reddit/etc during "vulnerable" (afternoon) hours.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/480646/how-can-i-delete-all-...

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by superasn » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

I kicked my habit by installing a host block script in my Tomato router. Just added reddit and HN to blacklisted hosts (I know I can undo it but it's too much work and it disables ad blocking too).

Now anytime I want to visit HN i have to switch to slow 4G and it makes me concious of my decision and slow internet also makes it less fun.

I haven't visited reddit in almost 6 months now (used to refresh it every hour). HN too is 10% compared to what it was before. As other users have commented the reason I still check it 3 4 times a day is because there is often news that relates directly to my business (launch of Google wavenet for example) and benefits me.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by t1o5 » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 9:18 PM UTC

I made 'lesshn' to filter out the feeds containing certain words that I am not interested in. You can create your own filters(via REST API) and bookmark it. https://lesshn.microapps.xyz

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by wolco » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 9:44 PM UTC

distortedsignal wrote: post #31

goshx wrote: post #24

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.

It would require discipline, but you could only read HN in incognito/private mode. Delete your history for a fresh start. I do this on my phone - it's not as helpful as I thought it would be.

Don't delete your entire history. When the site appears during autocomplete simply press the [delete /[del] key.

Re: The Hacker News Habit

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Post by m_ke » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 9:44 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #24

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 just disabled it for everything, also there's a way to delete specific autocomplete suggestions from the results.