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I think it's to stop the HN equivalent of "doomscrolling" or mindlessly wasting time. If you have to wait then there's time to think, ok should I even be doing

I think it's to stop the HN equivalent of "doomscrolling" or mindlessly wasting time. If you have to wait then there's time to think, ok should I even be doing this right now?

disillusioned 6y ago
I do the inverse of this: scan the front page, middle click to open the most promising articles into new tabs, group them and save them for later, and then skim/read the ones that interest me. HN is probably one of the most varied, important bits of my media diet. Then I'll circle back for any discussions I think might be interesting.
- Zancarius 6y ago
  I do the same thing. Middle click -> open up a ton of tabs -> read later or forget about them and have them persist in the long forgotten vestiges of my bookmarks. Most of them never get read. Do you also do that thing where you think of an HN headline some weeks later and go "Oh! I think I saw something about that?" then dig through your history, find it, and then read it?
  - clairity 6y ago
    “Do you also do that thing where you think of an HN headline some weeks later and go ‘Oh! I think I saw something about that?’ then dig through your history, find it, and then read it?” i do this all the time, with websites of all sorts. i really wish the browser would allow me to search the text of all the sites i’ve ever visited (realizing that’s a big ask), as regular internet search (ddg) often doesn’t return the page i dimly (and perhaps incorrectly) remember.
    - Zancarius 6y ago
      This is gonna sound dumb, but I also wish there were a way to search by the prominent color of the site. I don't know how else to explain it, but if I can't exactly remember the title, sometimes I remember roughly what it "looked" like. Completely subjective, impossible to implement in a way that would be useful, but that in addition to searching text as you suggested would go a long way toward finding something!

I think it's to stop the HN equivalent of "doomscrolling" or mindlessly wasting time. If you have to wait then there's time to think, ok should I even be doing this right now?

disillusioned 6y ago

I do the inverse of this: scan the front page, middle click to open the most promising articles into new tabs, group them and save them for later, and then skim/read the ones that interest me. HN is probably one of the most varied, important bits of my media diet. Then I'll circle back for any discussions I think might be interesting.

Zancarius 6y ago
I do the same thing. Middle click -> open up a ton of tabs -> read later or forget about them and have them persist in the long forgotten vestiges of my bookmarks. Most of them never get read. Do you also do that thing where you think of an HN headline some weeks later and go "Oh! I think I saw something about that?" then dig through your history, find it, and then read it?
- clairity 6y ago
  “Do you also do that thing where you think of an HN headline some weeks later and go ‘Oh! I think I saw something about that?’ then dig through your history, find it, and then read it?” i do this all the time, with websites of all sorts. i really wish the browser would allow me to search the text of all the sites i’ve ever visited (realizing that’s a big ask), as regular internet search (ddg) often doesn’t return the page i dimly (and perhaps incorrectly) remember.
  - Zancarius 6y ago
    This is gonna sound dumb, but I also wish there were a way to search by the prominent color of the site. I don't know how else to explain it, but if I can't exactly remember the title, sometimes I remember roughly what it "looked" like. Completely subjective, impossible to implement in a way that would be useful, but that in addition to searching text as you suggested would go a long way toward finding something!