Ask HN: Do you use N + Enter to access Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6820580

by oscilator • 13 years ago

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Do you find yourself (sometimes) mindlessly opening a new tab and pressing N + Enter just to see what's new?

J_Darnley• 13 years ago

No because I disabled the awful auto-complete in Firefox. This place is the first drop-down entry for "n" though.

yuvadam• 13 years ago

True. It used to be the best auto-complete out there, and for some reason it has become just as bad as Chrome's.

anwaar• 13 years ago

Yes

__derek__• 13 years ago

Yup.

RossM• 13 years ago

Yes, but via hckrnews.com (so H for me). It's a good pointer that I really am procrastinating when I do it repeatedly in the space of a few minutes.

CrazedGeek• 13 years ago

More like n + down arrow + enter, but yes.

I will also fully admit to having closed an HN tab and then immediately opening a new HN tab out of habit.

olouv• 13 years ago

Cmd-L + n + enter is the Chrome winning combo for me.

raverbashing• 13 years ago

Or just Cmd-T + n + enter

Ecio78• 13 years ago

Same here, and it is fun to see it not working after you have just reinstalled/started using a new computer, but after some days everything is the same and I'm in peace.. almost :)

lanstein• 13 years ago

I just brain-deadedly tried that to see what it does and... yes, apparently. (plus the down arrow)

olefoo• 13 years ago

Yes; and it is unfortunately the entrance to the "dark playground" for me.

See http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procra... for the full expansion of the dark playground.

kzrdude• 13 years ago

No, I think I type news + Return (Firefox).

luos• 13 years ago

Yes, sadly. On my machine it is win+w - n + enter (new browser + hn ). If you don't want to waste your whole day on HN try the procrast settings in your profile. What works for me is every 70 minutes I get 10 minutes HN.

I started developing a site which domain starts with "news". Sometimes in some mysterious way that is the first. :)

tambourine_man• 13 years ago

H enter for https://news.ycombinator.com Safari is smart enough to check the title tag

willchilcutt• 13 years ago

I use the letter 'Y' for y-combinator

hanapbuhay• 13 years ago

Y, for me, is for YouTube.

mlaccetti• 13 years ago

netvibes.com open in an tab aggregating the web and letting me know when more to read.

basch• 13 years ago

middle click the bookmark bar icon.

rprameshwor• 13 years ago

I was used to <Ctrl> + T -> "new" -> Enter Never realized just the "n" would be sufficient. From now on, definitely 'am gonna use N + Enter

mercer• 13 years ago

yes, on my laptop. On my iPad I start with 'h' to get hn.premii.com.

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