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I keep typing "www.hackernews.com"

4 points| refactormonkey | 13 years ago

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?

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[+] mryan|13 years ago|reply
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|13 years ago|reply
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'

[+] ColinWright|13 years ago|reply
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|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] steiger|13 years ago|reply
I like to get in here through the URL 'hackerne.ws'. It's shorter and easier to remember than 'news.ycombinator.com'.