Long-time lurker here.
I really would appreciate that as I'd rather check a couple of new stories while at the same time glancing over the current top-stories.
Reducing this by one click (I know, I'm lazy) would be great!
Re:Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
by Drag0nR3b0rn on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:35PM
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If you're using Chrome (or any other Chromium based browser) - you can try this extension - http://bit.ly/dTI5Oq - it displays new & top side by side.
I wonder if it wouldn't make sense for the front page to have a few "new" articles show up as well. Like, sprinkled throughout the list, or maybe just show three of them at the top. Get them in front of the whole audience, rather than just the small subset of users that visit the "new" page regularly.