Why do you browse the New tab?

I love the new tab... Most of my best finds are in New.

For whatever reason, the home page tends to focus on "News" from Washpost/ NYtimes/etc ... FAANG/ Big Co stuff (releases, interviewing, blah) and a bunch of other stuff that is generally not interesting to me.

To find really good personal blog posts, interesting new companies, or up and coming technology its almost always on "new", "show", or "ask"

> why others do it

I went to look in New after reading this page, and found this wonderful long article, about the world's reaction to the virus, which had been posted for 6 hours without getting an upvote! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934334

So thanks, I used to read in New all the time, but forgot how good it can get! The front page is a lil like the pop music of HN..and I dont listen to pop music, not sure why I trust the front few pages contain the best of HN.

It takes almost no time to scan down the page. If I see something that looks interesting then I'll click.

So many interesting items fall off the "Newest" page without ever being seen or voted on, it's worth a quick scan. I often see something there that's worth a second look ... my interests aren't totally aligned with the core HN community, so much of what I would like never hits the Front Page.

Or, you know, just FOMO.

I run a tumblelog [0] and daily I browse the New tab looking for content to link to.

[0] https://plurrrr.com/, for which I wrote my own SSG [1]

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

I use "new", "comments", "ask", and "shownew"; I don't use the main list. What I would really want is a user option for purely chronological sort everywhere.

New is a fire hose. You can read through 100s of pages

After I post a link, I go to the New tab to wait for my karma points. While waiting, I upvote a couple of articles to show how generous I am.