Ask HN: What is your HN day like?
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Usually check my email in the morning, then visit HN main page and browse through stuff while I consume my morning coffee. I'll check out the New section periodically throughout the day. Usually don't vote on any comments unless I said "word" aloud to myself after reading them.
These days I read YC with Opera on OSX. My build scripts have
open -a Opera http://news.ycombinator.com
open -a Opera build.out
I'll start off with myself:
1) Browse through and read top stories of the day as well as the New section. I also follow links within the stories for deeper reading.
2) After reading stories, I'll come back and save any stories that were interesting.
3) I then go into my saved stories' related comments and read all every last comment.
4) As I read through the comments, I up-vote existing comments that, in my eyes, provide value either for myself or I see as enhancing the discussion. I very rarely down-vote.
5) After reading all comments, I'll then decide (rarely) to add my own comments to the discussion.
6) Once I've read through all of the posted comments, I usually don't return to that particular thread. It's difficult to sort out the previous comments I've already read from any new ones, relative to myself. Thoughts?
7) Revisit, usually browsing the main page and New section multiple times a day.