How are you using HN every day?

Well... I open my browser, type news. and by the wonder of auto-completion, I enter the site as soon as strike the enter key. I skim through the top stories, open a few in their own tabs. Sometimes I go directly to the comments field since it can actually be more interesting to read than the link itself. After a few minutes of this I might click on /threads/ or /new/. I mostly consume on HN and I probably only reply a few times a week.

I scan the titles for the last 24 hours. Open in tabs the ones that look interesting. Some I will read fully, some I will comment on. Many I will scan loosely to get whether this is an article that needs to be read closely, find that it doesn't, and close that tab.

If I run into a site that needs registration, or is paywalled, I simply close that tab and move on.