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Favorite HN Patterns?
I wonder how folks get the most out of HN.
I personally often look at Ask and Show more deeply than Top. I find those to be more interesting to me.
I limit HN to AM bathroom times mostly, but do check it out some days while I work. If I’m unsuccessful at managing distractions or just want a low stress break, it’s a quick way to satisfy.
- qualudeheart 4y agoI browse new posts.
- muzani 4y agoI find Ask HN to have the poorest signal/noise ratio. But the signal is really good when it happens, so there's a skinner box effect, that makes me go here first. Show HN is a different environment and very little is useful, but still better than Product Hunt. There's a lot of interesting/inspirational stuff though. Main page is nice at times, but also full of people who neither read the article nor understand the topic. Most of the time I skip the top comments (which are often unpopular opinions like "bitcoin is ponzi") and dig around the middle comments.
- WallyFunk 4y agoNot sure you know about it, but I'm a frequent visitor of /asknew[0] where I try to help people out with their problems. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
- r721 4y agoDon't miss the "Lists" link at the bottom of every page: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists I particularly like "Most active current discussions" page: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active