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Comment by prawn | Hacker News Reader

"I've never purposefully clicked a link from within Stack Exchange..."

How do you resist those crazy unrelated questions in the sidebar? Currently shown for me:

  Did Shadowfax go to Valinor?
  Is it legal for company to use my work email to pretend I still work there?
  Why can't we play rap on piano?
  Can a virus destroy the BIOS of a modern computer?

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These became so distracting that I applied an Adblock filter to hide the “Hot Network Questions” div, lol!

Ha! I do this too. Just the other day I was pair programming with someone who asked "why don't you have those super stupid questions on the right nav bar?"

That sidebar is my biggest time waster in the day.

They changed it so you can hide hot network questions(without any karma requirement)

Thanks for pointing that out! Direct link for anyone else looking for it: https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences

I guess it's finally time to create an account!

Well, thanks a lot, now I have no other choice but to google at least two of those.

That shadowfax one, quora is horrible that way too. You're interested in one bit of canon triva one time, and the site immediately assumes that particular story is all you want to read about, every day for months.

I bet gwaihir carried shadowfax to valinor.

I don't think hot questions are tailored at all, are they? I often get questions from boards I never visited, so I assumed it's a global collection.

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