I agree, but it was submitted yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903259 with a lot of discussion, and also there is a link in the top left corner of the main page.
we don't? i always check new all day long.
I just use RSS.
same
I spend most of my time in /new.
It's the best part of HN, in the same sense that questions on stack overflow that have been flagged as inappropriate are the most interesting ones.
I visit HN to read comments - getting to know everybody else’s perspective, thoughts and pulse of their reaction. What’s there in ‘/new’?
Content that lets you form your own opinion first, before being directed by group think in the comments.
That's why there's botihn in irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn