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Comment by joshmlewis | Hacker News Reader

It is very interesting how..eh..addictive this site is. It's like a habit to do CMD + T and start typing in news.y..etc. And while it was down I was refreshing every few minutes. I think personally I do get a lot out of this site, I definitely wouldn't be where I am today without it. I've learned a lot, asked a lot, and tried to give back as much as I could. I landed a couple jobs from here that have now set me on a very successful path at such a young age. I'm very thankful for the community here. Sorry for turning this into an emotional post, but I really owe a lot to HN.

EDIT: I do just do CMD + T and then n for everyone who thought I did otherwise. Sometimes it happens so quickly I do new..or whatever, but you get the idea. This is a trivial point.

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> It's like a habit to do CMD + T and start typing in news.y

I think you're a real addict if you don't even get past typing ne before the autocomplete comes up :D

Yeah, well, I'm constantly hooked up to an EEG headset that is programmed to recognize, within .03 nanoseconds from onset, the specific electrical wave pattern my brain triggers when I've got even the smallest desire to browse HN, flipping my desk upside down to expose the orange and overlocked 8.2ghz, 32gb DDRAM HN supercomputer loaded with nothing more than the latest webkit nightly set to open with 15 tabs each containing one of the top 15 stories at HN at that time. I've also got a CPAP machine hacked to fit a Camelbak tube through the mask so that when I do forget to continue living, I'm always covered. News moves fast here, and you've got to keep up.

Psh - it's my only "n" site. CMD + T, n, Enter.

I added an edit just for you.

Much appreciated... I thought my comment was in the spirit of the relentless pursuit of factual accuracy for which we come to HN - regardless of the trivialness of the fact... :)

I have my webcam set up to go to HN when I blink.

My problem is that I do exactly this while already reading hacker news.

Seriously who types all that?

It's 'h' + down + enter, and here I am.

At least for me, it's <ctrl-t>n<enter>. Three keystrokes, and probably under half a second.

Same here. It's just gnh in Vimperator/Pentadactyl for me.

Nah, you're a real addict if it's an app tab and you never have to type it.

Then count me as an addict. I have HN as a tab.

Ctrl + 1 for me on Opera

What website is more important/frequently visited and starts with n? I always type n<enter> unless I was very recently browsing the new york times

I tend to prefer http://hckrnews.com just because of the more intuitive browsing interface and filtering options (top 10, top 20, etc). I have it as a shortcut on my main phone screen and bookmarked in all browsers.

Ironically, for me typing n is indeed HN, but the next one is nbcolympics.com, (and we all know how useful the latter is if you don't have cable subscription...) so I assume I don't need to check my self into a HN addict clinic just yet

Nope, this takes the cake for just n but sometimes, out of habit, I start typing really fast and I get the first few letters in.

news.google.com for me

news.bbc.co.uk here

In Safari, CMD + 1 works if you have it as a top-level bookmark. Or rather, in the case of your workflow, CMD + T then CMD + 1.

There has to be a more efficient way of doing this!

set your homepage to hn?

I go a step further: I leave HN open in an app tab

Shameless plug: If you are so addicted you can check out the articles chronologically by day (or hour) using my little project: http://hntimeline.com/ (Hint: using shift + mousewheel to move through time)

I use Jeff Miller's RSS feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50

More info at http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

For UX's sake, you should make the time big and put it somewhere obvious rather than on the right in little letters in a darker font. Otherwise, cool project. :)

There are minor typos in the message the javascript adds next to the slider for new users: 'Drag it to start moving thorught time'.

Wow, that's an awesome site. Good job!

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