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Boy, I wish someone had asked this before. The best posts are ones that say something surprising (e.g. not just a reporter writing a routine story about a fami
by pg 18y ago
Boy, I wish someone had asked this before.
The best posts are ones that say something surprising (e.g. not just a reporter writing a routine story about a familiar topic), and say it in a convincing way, with depth of argument, and numbers, if applicable.
Posts about how to do things oneself, and how things work, tend to be particularly appreciated. This is an audience that likes to know the details.
Posts don't have to be about hacking, so long as they talk in detail about something novel or surprising. Though arguably anything that talks about the internal details of how something works is about hacking, in the broader sense.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411994 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411994
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406885
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418776 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418776
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414330 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414330
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418329 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418329
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414226
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414502 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414502
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418098 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418098
- snprbob86 18y agoThree of those links were a different color because they were not in my browser history. I immediately middle-clicked each of them.
- patio11 18y agoHoly cow -- middle clicking opens in a new tab?! I love you.
- cmos 18y agoyea.. that just transformed my browsing ability, though probably not for the better :)
- randomwalker 18y agoMy first thought on reading that was, "some people don't know that?!" My immediate next thought was, "I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours." Is there a wiki for this sort of thing? There needs to be one.
- ivankirigin 18y agoapple-shift-t reopens closed tabs in firefox
- bd 18y agoCtrl-Shift-T on Windows: works in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Also middle click closes tab.
- zacharydanger 18y agoIt's the same for Linux, too.
- mark_h 18y agoYou are my hero. I presume that's built in? I've been using TMP to get the same functionality, but it uses F12 which gets swallowed by firebug if you have that enabled.
- albertni 18y agoYeah I used to use F12 with Tab Mix Plus until it was swallowed by Firebug, and that's when I discovered Ctrl-Shift-T, which is arguably easier to hit than F12 as well.
- ivankirigin 18y agoheh. Funny thing is that I post or tweet this about once a week. It's my pet project to tell more people about this.
- auston 18y agohow do you get firebug to work with F12 on Mac!?
- Hexstream 18y agoCTRL-click does the same.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoThis just saved me countless minutes. Great.
- rms 18y agoI think this is default behavior (thought I vaguely remember configuring it) -- on a computer without a mouse you can simultaneous left and right to open a new tab.
- orib 18y agoOn Linux, left+right click emulate a middle click, at least if you only have two buttons.
- tokenadult 18y agoThanks for the specific examples of threads you have liked. I find that I like to learn inductively. And you also described some characteristics of likeable posts, for those who like to learn deductively.
- siong1987 18y ago"President of Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented (volunteer), founding director and math coach for Edina Center for Academic Excellence (career), homeschooling father of four children." - extracted from the profile of tokenadult. He is a grown up man with four children. Not longer a boy.