Ask HN: Do you read the "newest" section?

11 points by kalistoga 14 years ago | 7 comments

I was wondering if it was just me or if there are actually a lot of people reading off of the HN firehose on the "new" page (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest)

For example, my everyday routine is: 1. When I wake up, visit HN front page and read. 2. When that's done, visit /new (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) 2. For the rest of the day, stay on "new" and refresh forever.

Maybe i'm just an abnormal info addict. Was wondering what the general behavior of the community is. I'm especially interested because I'm curious about how interesting projects get voted up to the front page: whether my cool project can reach the front page without asking friends to come vote it up--if it's cool enough, will the people monitoring "newest" like me vote it up and help it reach the front page?

nsmartt 14 years ago |

I haven't been, and I don't normally comment either. I'm beginning to lately because the top stories don't satisfy me anymore.

tom_b 14 years ago |

I go to /newest and upvote almost any story that on first glance looks both programming-related and hacker-interesting.

Sometimes I upvote startup news/blog postings if they talk about technical details in business (SEO, marketing, language/library/design choices).

I flag stuff that looks like complete junk.

Ignore the rest.

simon 14 years ago |

I scan the newest feed about half the time that I visit the site. We're all info addicts here. :-)

kalistoga 14 years ago | |

Hehe great to know I'm not alone. I was feeling kinda guilty :)

klt0825 14 years ago |

Almost always when I visit. There are very interesting things that just never make it to the top-stories for one reason or another so I don't want to miss them.

pron 14 years ago |

Oh, I read the "newest" section simply because I don't trust the rankings given by HN members. Or by any crowd, for that matter.

whichdan 14 years ago |

I usually don't, only because I'm more interested in the comments than the links.