Poll: how do you use HN?

<a href="http://www.icombinator.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.icombinator.net/</a>

I use this feed: <a href="http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss" rel="nofollow">http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A...</a> via Google Reader.<p>Because it expands out the content of the links, this makes reading it significantly easier. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job.

Open news.yc.<p>Cmd + click all interesting titles.<p>Return to read interesting comment threads.<p>Absorb knowledge.<p>Rinse.<p>Repeat.

As a bit of reasoning behind why I go directly to the site (and I assume others as well)<p>1) On twitter, I don't get the num of votes, and comments<p>2) there are too many articles to use in RSS. It fills the rss reader.<p>3) Aggregator? could you clarify that one?<p>4) I tried a firefox extension just to provide feedback, but it wasn't as natural as going to the site proper.<p>Out of curiosity, is there is something you were looking for? A more direct question?

Tried RSS feeds but it sucks. There needs to be an RSS feed that only shows items that make it at least to the front page. Or maybe beyond some configurable vote threshold.

I use the RSS feed. If you use Safari there is a way to drag a feed to your address bar and have it automatically update. This can also aggregate all your feeds into a single bookmark bar item, but I don't know how many people know/use this feature in Safari. I tried using the RSS read in mail, but I get enough stuff in my mailbox.

And <a href="http://hackerne.ws/" rel="nofollow">http://hackerne.ws/</a><p>Back-story: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039</a> and <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470</a>

I just use RSS. I agree that there are way too many articles to go through. However, I just skim the titles every once in awhile and click only on things that jump out at me. I have had years of experience filtering google search results, so I'm quite good at it :D

<a href="http://www.mcsquare.me/technology/hackers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcsquare.me/technology/hackers/</a><p>HN site

I'm honestly thinking of starting to use it as Richard Stallman would. Voted for HNsite, which I also check on my phone.

The proportions of this sample fit my expectations given the "referal" traffic show by analytics when I have blog posts.

I use <a href="http://www.hackurls.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackurls.com</a>

How did you make this poll?

site + searchyc.com

Obsessively.