It is very interesting how..eh..addictive this site is. It's like a habit to do CMD + T and start typing in news.y..etc. And while it was down I was refreshing every few minutes. I think personally I do get a lot out of this site, I definitely wouldn't be where I am today without it. I've learned a lot, asked a lot, and tried to give back as much as I could. I landed a couple jobs from here that have now set me on a very successful path at such a young age. I'm very thankful for the community here. Sorry for turning this into an emotional post, but I really owe a lot to HN.
EDIT: I do just do CMD + T and then n for everyone who thought I did otherwise. Sometimes it happens so quickly I do new..or whatever, but you get the idea. This is a trivial point.
Yeah, well, I'm constantly hooked up to an EEG headset that is programmed to recognize, within .03 nanoseconds from onset, the specific electrical wave pattern my brain triggers when I've got even the smallest desire to browse HN, flipping my desk upside down to expose the orange and overlocked 8.2ghz, 32gb DDRAM HN supercomputer loaded with nothing more than the latest webkit nightly set to open with 15 tabs each containing one of the top 15 stories at HN at that time. I've also got a CPAP machine hacked to fit a Camelbak tube through the mask so that when I do forget to continue living, I'm always covered. News moves fast here, and you've got to keep up.
Much appreciated... I thought my comment was in the spirit of the relentless pursuit of factual accuracy for which we come to HN - regardless of the trivialness of the fact... :)
I tend to prefer http://hckrnews.com just because of the more intuitive browsing interface and filtering options (top 10, top 20, etc). I have it as a shortcut on my main phone screen and bookmarked in all browsers.
Ironically, for me typing n is indeed HN, but the next one is nbcolympics.com, (and we all know how useful the latter is if you don't have cable subscription...) so I assume I don't need to check my self into a HN addict clinic just yet
Shameless plug: If you are so addicted you can check out the articles chronologically by day (or hour) using my little project: http://hntimeline.com/ (Hint: using shift + mousewheel to move through time)
For UX's sake, you should make the time big and put it somewhere obvious rather than on the right in little letters in a darker font. Otherwise, cool project. :)
EDIT: I do just do CMD + T and then n for everyone who thought I did otherwise. Sometimes it happens so quickly I do new..or whatever, but you get the idea. This is a trivial point.