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?
I love the weekly-newsletter format, so i very much appreciate Kale Davis' hacker newsletter: <a href="http://www.hackernewsletter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackernewsletter.com</a><p>Other than that i use MiniHack on iOS (<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...</a>)... I rarely use the website
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.<p>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.
I'm constantly doing one of the following:<p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+something" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+someth...</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+something" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+somethin...</a><p>[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."]
I use <a href="http://www.tophackernews.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.tophackernews.net</a> by a friend, which captures only news that hit front page top 3. Mainly follow @TopHackerNewsHQ to read on Twitter.
I almost exclusively read from:<p><a href="http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/" rel="nofollow">http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/</a>
Just HN Enhancement Suite, which does a whole heap of things like collapsible comments, an (arguably) nicer site design / layout, as well as a bunch more.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...</a>
I use HN RSS feed with <a href="https://www.feedsapi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.feedsapi.org/</a> to get all the stories in full length forwarded to my email inbox and read them in full length in theoldreader reader. I now and then use <a href="http://www.ihackernews.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ihackernews.com</a> on the go (on my smartphone).
Old thread with suggestions <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474078" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474078</a>. Personally I feel the strong desire to have collapsible comment threads, but still haven't invested any time into finding proper solution.