How deep you go in reading HN news?

I almost never read the articles, only the comments. This is usually due to the comments correcting errors in the article, so usually I don't even need to read the article in the end.

Scan all the last day’s post titles.

Open links immediately with what I believe to be content-rich credible information and perspective relevant to my background and interests, which are many and varied. Source plays a helpful role in determining whether it’s worth an open, but isn’t the sole determinant. Maybe one in thirty.

Read the comments on posts with titles that sound like agitprop, knee-jerkism, marketing or just biased nonsense. Then open the post if

1. it isn’t already objectively trashed and

2. it is impactfully misleading and

3. I may be able to contribute something of substantive value to correct or redirect the post or discussion.

Contribute if I can, otherwise silence is Golden. Getting angry at pixels always seemed silly to me...

More interested in the meta-analysis of why posts are being posted, and the reasoning (or lack of) underlying the post. Where are we in discussion boards like this in the year 2020: posts, audience, moderation, etc.? I cruised ARPANET and punched cards...so where are we in 2020 on HN as compared to USENET, BBSs, GEnie, Compuserve, The Well, mailing lists, blogs, Reddit...

Skip most (but not all) posts on current practice in programming, design, testing, implementation. When I was most active, change control was the brand new concept. I am very old. Open links on legacy systems and ideas.

Skip almost all posts with a living or cultish name in them, unless it is someone who just died and I knew of. Will read a post on Bill Gates’s death, but not anything before...of course hoping that will be a long way in the future. It’s all dust in the wind, folks.

I receive an RSS feed on my Thunderbird mail client. There's the whole feed and there are specific feeds with topics of interest from hnrss where I ask questions and learn things from people here, or offer solutions on how we're doing things. I regularly visit Ask HN and chime in when there are questions I may have answers to based on what I know has worked for me (being more productive, management, getting to know a code base, becoming a better individual contributor, writing better code, B2B, building product, building an organization, etc).

Sometimes I'll reply with an "index reply"[0] that contains a collection of replies that are relevant to the Ask HN question.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25367011

Top half of the main page, top half of the ask page, usually only comments (not visiting the pages themselves unless it is something very interesting to me).

3-5 times a day. On average, I open 10 discussion pages a day, and visit around 3 links.

>> Check HN 1-2 / week.

>> Each time, I scan through pages 1-10 opening any links that seem relevant by their title (~30-60 open tabs).

I then scan through the opened tabs: 1) Closing the ones that are not relevant or are mere updates (~60%) 2) Reading the ones that are super relevant immediately (~20%) 3) Saving the ones that are 'resources' for ongoing or future projects (~20%)

Hardest to keep up with #2. Reading text articles is time consuming: 3 mins / link on average.

I’ve probably visited every day since launch, I read what interests me and usually skim all the comments on the front page because they’re often only tangentially related to the post so there’s usually something interesting in there. I don’t contribute much but the amount of times I’ve been able to solve a problem with “I read an article about this on hn” is significant.

I found 2 channels on telegram that gives me notifs,

Score above 75, @news_ycombinator

Score above 300, @ycombinatornews

But then sometimes i get bored and visit here to see other low scoring posts

I usually read the discussions since they are really interesting and save the articles for read later

I most spend most of my time on Ask HN and on the new page

Two pages deep, the " ask me " when that runs out.

I'll read the comments of say 10-15 items and rarely the story itself.

I look for threads on the front page with a lot of comments and then read almost all of those.

Do you read the discussion or the articles or both ?

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