I follow @HNTweets on Twitter (pretty much only thing I follow) and I scroll through it every time I have a free moment that would be wasted otherwise (bus rides or long queues come to mind).
I find it easier to follow because every post that hit front page goes there but posts are added only once and are ordered by time.
The Hacker News Habit
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the comments first as well. It's often a good indicator of whether or not the article is worth reading. And more often than not there are better references in the comments than the original source. Would be really interested in that Slack bot if you have the source handy.
I read the comments because HN is a lightweight and quick site and I don’t know how slow the target page might be.
I up voted all of the ancestors of this comment because I agree with all of them. Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. To add to the slow page load bit, I often read the comments to get an intelligent discourse as well as find out of the article is pay walled.
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#83I'd love an alternative frontpage view with different time weight. Something that you could visit weekly without losing any big news.
Have you tried https://hckrnews.com?
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#84just for peoples FYI, there are multiple ways to consume HN, quite a few people have built various tools for getting the best out of HN, I've been tryin to keep track of various ones here https://github.com/keithn/HackerNewsCommunity ( also updated with ones linked to in the comments here )
you could add the Android app Materialistic
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#85I use Materialistic, an Android app on my phone. When i skim the headlines 1-30 i just swipe to save em. Has several themes, a black one which saves energy on amoleds and solarized too. Found it via F-Droid but i am pretty sure it is in the play store. Working and reading hn are separated that way.
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#86I've been working on an Addiction Blocker for this site and many others. It's not ready for primetime yet but I offer it as a preview to the addicted participants of this thread https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
Really cool that Kenney designed the logo. I've been learning game development lately and have found his asset packs very useful. Small world!
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#87There are certainly worse things you could be doing with your time.
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#88I 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).…
> slow 4G
That wouldn't work in Australia, 4G is considered fast for most of us :)
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#89There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money. More…
I'm on Hacker News since eight years. My life would not be the same without it. A lot of what I know I know through Hacker News. HN has shaped my world view. Over the years I learned about starting a business, databases, programming languages, meditation, web development, interpersonal relationships and many things more. Writing HN comments and getting immediate feedback through comment score has improved my writing…
Me too. Now that I'm in an corporate embedded architect role, HN is less relevant to me. I'm looking for other communities but have not found anything yet.
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#90You 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.
There's also the 'favourite' link under the post title. That's good for keeping a list of stuff you want to revisit later.