The Hacker News Habit

Re:The Hacker News Habit by screaminghawk on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:56PM (#17777953)

I read the comments first as well. It's often a good indicator of whether or not the article is worth reading. And more often than not there are better references in the comments than the original source.

Would be really interested in that Slack bot if you have the source handy.

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Re:The Hacker News Habit by Swenrekcah on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:21PM (#17778130)

I read the comments because HN is a lightweight and quick site and I don’t know how slow the target page might be.

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Re:The Hacker News Habit by Topgamer7 on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:05AM (#17780607)

I up voted all of the ancestors of this comment because I agree with all of them. Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. To add to the slow page load bit, I often read the comments to get an intelligent discourse as well as find out of the article is pay walled.

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