It depends what do you want to use it for. If you do not want to reply and only want to consume, all you need is to go to "list" at the bottom, view the front-p

It depends what do you want to use it for. If you do not want to reply and only want to consume, all you need is to go to "list" at the bottom, view the front-page of the day, and classic. Upvote submission, comments, add to favourite. Once you spend a few years reading you will get the general vibe of certain topics and community bias. If you are not busy you could simply view all the top post during a weekend few hour sessions. Sometimes I have HN tabs that were opened from months before I just haven't have time to read it. Generally I grind it through when I have free time. And if you read a lot on Desktop / Laptop with hundreds of Tabs, your browser is far more important than whatever reading habit you have. Chrome and Firefox is order of magnitude better than Safari in handling hundreds of tabs.