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by tlrobinson 1706 days ago
I black-holed news.ycombinator.com on my work computer by adding it to my /etc/hosts file, but my subconscious compensated by going to news.google.com often enough that now ā€˜n’ + enter takes me there.
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At some point in time I drilled this sequence into my fingers:

ctrl-t, ne, ctrl-w

i.e. new tab, start typing news.ycombinator.com, immediately interrupt myself and close the tab.

These days I have hn mapped to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.

And yet both if you are here.

starts closing his 42 open HN tabs

yep, but less during work hours I hope.
In my case, it is 'n' + '↓' + enter