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My Hacker News morning ritual

by lygten on 12/24/23, 7:23 AM with 4 comments

A morning habit I've acquired is to browse through HN posts first thing, often with that first cup of coffee. I don't look at the most read or top ranked or most popular. I go straight to the NEW. Here I often find little gems that people overlook and that often vanish into obscurity, as no doubt this post will. Enjoy the holiday period.

  • by k310 on 12/24/23, 4:21 PM

    I look at "new", for the same reason. Great stuff lies in there.

    I have tried using an autopager extension in order to get a digest for the day, mainly to peruse later without having to click on "more"

    My "problem" is probably that my mind seems to want to scan vast amounts of information at once, and that a video or paginated information seems to have gaps in it that the mind wants to fill in.

    So, my Hacker News habit is more like taking a newspaper (what's that?) along on the train (I used to do that!) than watching a talking head on TV read a limited amount of articles, not of my choice on the tube. (The TV is somewhere in my hardware museum.)

    Cheers, everyone who scans it all.

  • by spansoa on 12/24/23, 5:54 PM

    Same here. I even read HN before I read my local news sites in the morning, pre-coffee. Typically I hunt for game-changing news that affects our entire industry, or some tooling which I can leverage. Everything else is just noise.

  • by TooSmugToFail on 12/24/23, 2:34 PM

    Same here.

  • by jaggs on 12/24/23, 10:45 AM

    Slurp!