You're right. This site isn't really designed to be read as a chronological feed. That defeats the purpose of the front page, which puts more popular articles in higher positions an d keeps them visible for longer.
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by windsurfer on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:05PM
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So your solution to his "It hurts when I do this" is "don't do that".
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by tptacek on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:14PM
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What's wrong with that?
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by windsurfer on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:46PM
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Well obviously he wants to do it, and he obviously knows it doesn't hurt him when he doesn't, so by saying "don't do that" you're being patronizing. It's pretty insulting.
His situation is more of "When I bend my wrist backwards, it hurts". He's using it in a way that is not necessarily good. Yes, it is included. And yes, it may be helpful/beneficial. But if you're having problems with doing things that way, stop.
In this case, yes.
This isn't a broken leg, its a cut. You keep it clean (ie, don't refresh the front page every five minutes), and you don't poke it. If it was a broken leg (ie, the front page gave you only the chronological order), then there would need a fix.
Feed readers are good for something you want to read ever single post for. HN is not something you'll want to read everything on, you just (in theory) want to read as much as possible.