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4 pointschistev11 comments

I'm an infovore and go to /latest

I visually scan extremely quickly, because my browser has an autopager that works on HN/latest, and I go one day back.

I copy the day's worth, open up SeaMonkey, get a new composer page and paste the html into it.

No slight on Algolia, this lets me search locally.

In those visual scans, since there are only so many hours in the day, I grab a few flying by and once in a while, go to /best to see which elephants I missed.

I never look at the front page, since it's so brief, I don't know the algo going on, and TBH, I rarely find something that interests me. A lot of my interest is in optical thingys and open source goodies that never make the front page, nor best.

I've been thinking about using "new"to see all submitted posts of the previous 24 hours and clicking the ones with titles I find interesting.

Nice to see someone who is already doing something similar.

Yea, I'm an info-vore myself too.

/latest doesn't do show anything for me, is there a secret to it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Sorry, newest.

Too late to edit. The secret is to triple check before posting (note to self)

ah, I was hoping it was secret thing, because when I put it in the url, it actually showed up as in the toolbar next to the other options.

There it is, click on "new". I don't because it's too small on the phone for my fat fingers.

I use a bookmark instead.

I just read /news and if I get bored of that I might check out /newest, sometimes I'll check /threads to see if anyone replied to comments I've left.

If I see something interesting, I click it. Then I click 'summarize' and my browser agent summarizes the content and reads it to me.

I load the front page and read the top comments for anything interesting before I commit to opening a link.

I read it in Harmonic from the bottom up

With extreme prejudice.

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