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You mean type 'n' and hit enter.

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I just configure the New Tab to go directly here, Ctrl+N for News

The ultimate productivity hack

I'm a Neuralink alpha tester. I configured it to open an HN tab on every device when I wink my left eye.

Do I win?

I have a dedicated monitor - so no.

when does neuralink hit beta? i can't wait to train myself into a new facial tic whenever i'm feeling slightly bored

Or, to be honest, a "more productive procrastination hack".

I just reroute all of my outgoing traffic to HN. Whatever I try to do I end up here. /s

I just glue hn to my face. I see it when I open my eyes.

I have hn CRISPRed into my genes, programmed carefully in multi-core OCaml backed by Postgres.

Sorry, but if you check your so-called junk DNA you’ll find I Base64-encoded it there already

You mean Base4?

NICE

That hits me where I live. I too have taught firefox that `n` means "please autofill to news.ycombinator.com".

I black-holed news.ycombinator.com on my work computer by adding it to my /etc/hosts file, but my subconscious compensated by going to news.google.com often enough that now ‘n’ + enter takes me there.

In my case, it is 'n' + '↓' + enter

At some point in time I drilled this sequence into my fingers:

ctrl-t, ne, ctrl-w

i.e. new tab, start typing news.ycombinator.com, immediately interrupt myself and close the tab.

These days I have hn mapped to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.

And yet both if you are here.

starts closing his 42 open HN tabs

yep, but less during work hours I hope.

At least once a day firefox lags out, doesn't autofill and instead takes me to search?q=n

This trick does not work anymore since I visited netflix :(

If you're using Google Chrome, shift+delete offenders.

works in firefox as well.

Using Firefox or Chrome solves this problem as you don't get full quality for Netflix on them, hence there's no address collision as you resort to using Edge (or else?) for Netflix.

Huh? You don't get full quality on Netflix in some browsers?

That’s correct: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444

> Netflix is available in Ultra HD on Windows and Mac computers with:

> - Microsoft Edge for Windows

> - Windows 10 App

> - Safari for MacOS 11.0 or later

I believe this is for DRM reasons — Firefox is open-source, so they don’t want you modifying your copy of Firefox to bypass DRM or whatever.

Does spoofing your user-agent bypass that?

You probably can't spoof the DRM.

I think that is because there is actually DRM technology in the browser that communicates with Netflix when on their site. So it's definitely a lot more than just checking a UA. But it would be nice if it were that easy.

yes as tragic as it is for over a decade already

Newegg is the worst collision for me.

My new tab has 3 buttons: HN, Google search, Wiki

command+l,n,enter

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