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Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?
Could be in the traditional sense (iGoogle, Netvibes, or other portal) or non-traditional sense (my e-mail or Flipboard or Facebook/Twitter is my start page) though doubt the traditional sense is relevant to HN.
Inspired by: http://clintonwu.com/post/10445425917/death-of-the-personal-start-page
- wysiwtf 15y agoI use about:blank I think this started years ago when connection speeds were slower I'd hate to have anything load up automatically.
- jeffool 15y agoI'm old-fashioned; Google News.
- jfb 15y agoI need randomness in my life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- dgunn 15y agoI would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.
- jfb 15y agoA problem here is that I have no particular problem skipping "Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist)[1] is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.", and sometimes you get diverted off into weird little Wikialleys that are fun/enlightening. Not every time I open a browser tab, for instance, do I want to get sucked into e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
- jplewicke 15y agoThere's a tool on Erwin that allows you to jump to random categories. I have my homepage set to random Featured Articles: http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=en&family=wikipedia&categories=Featured+articles http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=en&...
- dgunn 15y agoMy current start page is google with instant on. But, interestingly, it used to be mint.com. I became very addicted to mint for a period of about 3 months. After that initial phase, I never used it again. Maybe I burnt myself out.
- gyardley 15y agoThese days, my github account.
- burntflowers 15y agoGoosh, the unofficial Google shell http://goosh.org/ http://goosh.org/
- trafficlight 15y agoThat's pretty cool. I'll have to start using it.
- bazookaBen 15y agothx for the link, it's so awesome