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I keep typing "www.hackernews.com"

Since I visit this site like 5 times a day, that's a lot of wasteful typing. I know I am not alone. What solution did you find for this problem?

ColinWright 14y ago
Assuming you want to visit the site, why not: (a) Have a bookmark? (b) Have a clickable icon? (c) Just leave the browser window open? Another solution is to stop visiting. Then you save both the typing time, and the reading time.
yitchelle 14y ago
Make news.ycombinator.com your homepage on your favourite browser. When you start it up, it magically appears :-) OR Firefox 14 and Chrome (ever since I remember) have a feature that when open a new tab, it shows a screen snippet or capture of your most frequent visited sites. You just have to click on that snippet.
Stratoscope 14y ago
I type "n" and Enter. Chrome does the rest.
- narad 14y ago
  Did you mean "hn"?
  - orangechicken 14y ago
    No. "n" would trigger autocomplete (for "news.yco...") from Chrome's history and since everyone spends hours per day "being busy" here, it would pop up first.
- jamesjguthrie 14y ago
  Yep, that's what I do.
mryan 14y ago
You appear to be asking: "I am unable to remember the address of a website I visit five times per day. How can I fix this problem?" You have three options: ) Remember the address of the site. Or just remember that it begins with 'n' and, as Stratoscope says, Chrome will do the rest ) Set up a local DNS server so that www.hackernews.com -> news.ycombinator.com ) Ask pg to buy hackernews.com I would strongly recommend the first option.
vasco 14y ago
This doesn't happen to me, but assuming you will never want to go to "www.hackernews.com" and that you will be able to update this record when/if the hn IP changes: sudo bash -c 'echo "174.132.225.106 www.hackernews.com" >> /etc/hosts'
vavb 14y ago
I have it in my top sites. Click top left of the grid when I want to have a read. The N enter thing is pretty elegant too.
steiger 14y ago
I like to get in here through the URL 'hackerne.ws'. It's shorter and easier to remember than 'news.ycombinator.com'.
hekker 14y ago
http://hekkernieuws.nl/ http://hekkernieuws.nl/ for the Dutchies :)

Since I visit this site like 5 times a day, that's a lot of wasteful typing. I know I am not alone. What solution did you find for this problem?

ColinWright 14y ago

Assuming you want to visit the site, why not: (a) Have a bookmark? (b) Have a clickable icon? (c) Just leave the browser window open? Another solution is to stop visiting. Then you save both the typing time, and the reading time.

yitchelle 14y ago

Make news.ycombinator.com your homepage on your favourite browser. When you start it up, it magically appears :-) OR Firefox 14 and Chrome (ever since I remember) have a feature that when open a new tab, it shows a screen snippet or capture of your most frequent visited sites. You just have to click on that snippet.

Stratoscope 14y ago

I type "n" and Enter. Chrome does the rest.

narad 14y ago
Did you mean "hn"?
- orangechicken 14y ago
  No. "n" would trigger autocomplete (for "news.yco...") from Chrome's history and since everyone spends hours per day "being busy" here, it would pop up first.
jamesjguthrie 14y ago
Yep, that's what I do.

mryan 14y ago

You appear to be asking: "I am unable to remember the address of a website I visit five times per day. How can I fix this problem?" You have three options: ) Remember the address of the site. Or just remember that it begins with 'n' and, as Stratoscope says, Chrome will do the rest ) Set up a local DNS server so that www.hackernews.com -> news.ycombinator.com ) Ask pg to buy hackernews.com I would strongly recommend the first option.

vasco 14y ago

This doesn't happen to me, but assuming you will never want to go to "www.hackernews.com" and that you will be able to update this record when/if the hn IP changes: sudo bash -c 'echo "174.132.225.106 www.hackernews.com" >> /etc/hosts'

vavb 14y ago

I have it in my top sites. Click top left of the grid when I want to have a read. The N enter thing is pretty elegant too.

steiger 14y ago

I like to get in here through the URL 'hackerne.ws'. It's shorter and easier to remember than 'news.ycombinator.com'.

hekker 14y ago

http://hekkernieuws.nl/ http://hekkernieuws.nl/ for the Dutchies :)