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4 points·emcooke··11 comments

http://hackerne.ws too, though these are all of dubious merit

i use this one all the time

because i found myself typing "hacker news" into google instead of typing all 20 characters into the url bar.

... why not just make a bookmark?

maybe i am too stupid but bookmarks are just too complicated for me... they are always on the wrong computer, organizing them is a pain, and i just don't trust them to a 3rd party to keep them. google always seems easier :)

opendns shortcuts would do the job for you (even in multiple computers) http://blog.opendns.com/2007/04/22/shortcut-the-web/

bookmarks in the cloud?

http://www.delicious.com

This is where AwesomeBar is... well, Awesome.

I'm here so much I just type ne <tab> <enter> and I'm here.

There's something unsettling about using a domain that forwards to the site you actually want to use; especially when they aren't owned by the same person / organization.

The biggest risk is that one day they turn into a phishing site...

That's a long shot, but if enough people would start using a non-related domain as an alternative front door to a site that would be a very nasty way to catch a bunch of people unaware.

Even more sneaky to forward them to the real site after they log in (or to proxy the requests).

I don't really think anything bad will happen in this example. I'm just saying in general it's one of those things that makes me uncomfortable.

Voted up because this guy is an idiot.

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