>> Unfortunately, I've found that the really technical posts which are awesome never seem to stick around for that long which is why it's good to check out /new every so often too.

That's the kind of... sad? Part of HN. Hardly anything lives for more than a day on home page. And links on /new have a few hours and then they got lost.

Not sure about others but I personally tend to look at the posts which already have a vote or two, while skipping the ones which don't. Eh, social proof goes quite far.

I think there is an opportunity for a tool which would extract the keywords from the post (not the title) and would give me some content from /new which you wouldn't have discovered from top pages. Been thinking about it for a while, what do you reckon folks?