Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I'd like a modification to the "get back to work" message.

I would enjoy if it rotated a bit through different creative reminders.

Examples:

"have you exercised 150 minutes this week?" (low activity has been purported to kill as many people as smoking, and a bet a lot of we computer users are in that demographic.

"Any hobbies interesting you at the moment? Why not work on them for a bit?"

"Get back to work!"

"Go get out of your comfort zone"

And maybe some inspirational quotes.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/paul_valery.html

Thanks for thinking about it!

Memorizing clicked links independent of browser's history.

I often read HN at work. The page interface is very simple but the bright color of visited links makes it easy to navigate and spot new top stories.

The problem occurs when I go back home and check if any interesting news were added. I have to navigate through a long list of links and the only way of knowing if anything new popped up is to read all the titles again.

It would be helpful if HN could memorize visited articles and change the link color accordingly regardless of the browser history.

Add subdomain mews.ycombinator.com(also possibly meows) to redirects to news.ycombinator.com.

Lighting sucks at times and muscle memory might be a key off.

To help people manage the time they spend on HN (given its slightly addictive nature), what about a rolling series of front-page view counts beside your username. Like it would show you how many times you'd clicked on the front page today, and to the left it would have the counts for the prior days (going back 5 days say). Users can strive to keep that down to a reasonable level.

In the news feed, there are topics for 'Ask HN' and 'Show HN', but one thing I really enjoy are the books or other sorts of list-based suggestions people provide. It would be really nice to have a more explicit way to pick these out, like a 'List HN' type of comment as opposed to sorting through all the 'Ask HN' links for a good booklist.