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Ask HN: What tools/add-ons/sites do you use to get most out of Hacker News?

10 points| shekhar101 | 11 years ago | reply

I use hckrnews.com along with chrome extension to get 'Top stories' and also to catch up with days when I don't have access to internet. I'm curious what other add-ons other members use? I also noticed people reference old threads in discussions. How do you keep track of them?

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[+] jyu|11 years ago|reply
I use RSS for nearly everything. RSS allows you to avoid the fear of missing great stories or content due to timing, groupthink flagging, etc. You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods.

An added bonus is that RSS preserves [dead] stories. Once a story is [dead], it won't show up in hn.algolia.com search results, even though it still shows up on HN.

[+] hashtag|11 years ago|reply
You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods

Can you elaborate on how the mod works?

[+] percept|11 years ago|reply
I'm constantly doing one of the following:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+someth...

https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+somethin...

[Aside: I really like the DDG mission, but am finding myself more frequently (and unfortunately) returning to Google for technical searches, and switched back to it as my default. I'm finding more relevant results at the top of Google's SERPs. Both DDG and Google diminished IMO when they tried to become "smarter."]

[+] dennybritz|11 years ago|reply
I usually only check "Ask HN" and read the top stories posted by Hacker News on Twitter.
[+] gauravgupta|11 years ago|reply
I use HackerNode to read HN on my iPhone.
[+] mromanuk|11 years ago|reply
Minihack is the best for iPad