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Comment by marai2 | Hacker News Reader

Hacker News' "favorites" is now my bookmarking service :-) It's like a poor man's Del.icio.us. (It doesn't checkmark majority of the OP's boxes). But if your interests align with mine fp, ML, lisp then you may want to check out my favorites list. https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=marai2

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Yes, me too! So much so that I created an API [1] to quickly access my favorites in a machine-readable format (JSON), which I use to display them on my website: https://mihir.ch/#hn.

[1]: https://github.com/plibither8/hn-faves-api

I'm the same. I often favourite posts I find noteworthy, useful or I want to revisit later. It's a pity you can't favourite with a single click from the list view (e.g. front page) or for comments from the thread view. I think, especially for comments, the favourite feature is hard to discover and inconvenient to use. Wish it would be easier so more people would use it because skimming through other peoples favourites is also an entertaining pasttime.

"pasttime" is a good description. On slow HN days when there is less interesting content to me on the front page I'll check out my favorites and then have an "holy cow! I have so many interesting articles I need to catch up on" moment :-)

What I would really like to do when I have some spare time is write a browser extension that will randomly inject a few of my favorite links into the HN frontpage for me so I can passively revisit these posts and discussions I've saved.

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