Poll: how do you use HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379012

by jmillerinc • 16 years ago

23 26 16 years ago

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adelevie• 16 years ago

How did you make this poll?

jmillerinc2• 16 years ago

See the FAQ.

snprbob862• 16 years ago

http://www.icombinator.net/

peregrine• 16 years ago

Wow where has this been all my life?

ez77• 16 years ago

What's the advantage of using this site? Is it legitimate to republish the comments?

snprbob862• 16 years ago

It's optimized for iPhone...

pedalpete• 16 years ago

As a bit of reasoning behind why I go directly to the site (and I assume others as well)

1) On twitter, I don't get the num of votes, and comments

2) there are too many articles to use in RSS. It fills the rss reader.

3) Aggregator? could you clarify that one?

4) I tried a firefox extension just to provide feedback, but it wasn't as natural as going to the site proper.

Out of curiosity, is there is something you were looking for? A more direct question?

jmillerinc2• 16 years ago

I primarily read the HN RSS feed, and also try to look at every headline that comes across the feed to make sure I don't miss any godo stuff. I became curious about how much in the minority I am in doing this.

sayhello• 16 years ago

I used to have this OCDish behavior with HN & twitter, but then it took too much of my life.

Since I stopped both, I sleep more and consequently code better.

Some gems don't get upvoted, and that's ok; I'll discover it eventually somehow. In twitter's case, the signal to noise ratio just doesn't cut it for me at this moment.

kennu• 16 years ago

I also follow the RSS feed headlines nearly realtime in Google Reader. I was surprised to see that Hacker News has four times the amount of submissions/day than other feeds I follow:

  109.8 Hacker News
  25.7 Joystiq
  25.4 Digg Offbeat
  23.6 Slashdot
  22.6 Mashable!
  22.5 Digg Technology
  18.3 Lifehacker

Surprised, because I have no problem keeping up with HN, while I often have to skip other feeds a lot. (That's the top 7 of total 116 feeds in my reader.)

nreece• 16 years ago

And http://hackerne.ws/

Back-story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470

tbeseda• 16 years ago

Open news.yc.

Cmd + click all interesting titles.

Return to read interesting comment threads.

Absorb knowledge.

Rinse.

Repeat.

kentosi• 16 years ago

I always Cmd+Click on the comment threads. This way I have a way of then opening the article, and then going "back" to the comments.

chasingsparks• 16 years ago

The proportions of this sample fit my expectations given the "referal" traffic show by analytics when I have blog posts.

gvb• 16 years ago

Obsessively.

dca• 16 years ago

Tried RSS feeds but it sucks. There needs to be an RSS feed that only shows items that make it at least to the front page. Or maybe beyond some configurable vote threshold.

Ixiaus• 16 years ago

I like the RSS feed because even though it's a lot to consume, there's always a gem or two hidden inside the depths of HN that never reaches the front page...

JangoSteve• 16 years ago

I use a feed that only shows items that hit the front page (otherwise I couldn't keep up). I forget how I found this originally.

http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi

[Edit: this feed now appears to be redirecting, but either URL works in my feed-reader: http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http://...]

stuntmouse• 16 years ago

site + searchyc.com

tansey• 16 years ago

I use http://www.hackurls.com

mx12• 16 years ago

I use the RSS feed. If you use Safari there is a way to drag a feed to your address bar and have it automatically update. This can also aggregate all your feeds into a single bookmark bar item, but I don't know how many people know/use this feature in Safari. I tried using the RSS read in mail, but I get enough stuff in my mailbox.

eldila• 16 years ago

I just use RSS. I agree that there are way too many articles to go through. However, I just skim the titles every once in awhile and click only on things that jump out at me. I have had years of experience filtering google search results, so I'm quite good at it :D

Concours• 16 years ago

http://www.mcsquare.me/technology/hackers/

HN site

catch404• 16 years ago

I'm honestly thinking of starting to use it as Richard Stallman would. Voted for HNsite, which I also check on my phone.

AndrewDucker• 16 years ago

I use this feed: http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A... via Google Reader.

Because it expands out the content of the links, this makes reading it significantly easier. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job.

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