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Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

5 points by ClintonWu ↗ HN
Could be in the traditional sense (iGoogle, Netvibes, or other portal) or non-traditional sense (my e-mail or Flipboard or Facebook/Twitter is my start page) though doubt the traditional sense is relevant to HN.

Inspired by: http://clintonwu.com/post/10445425917/death-of-the-personal-start-page

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jeffool
I'm old-fashioned; Google News.
jfb
I need randomness in my life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

dgunn
I would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.
jfb
A problem here is that I have no particular problem skipping "Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist)[1] is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.", and sometimes you get diverted off into weird little Wikialleys that are fun/enlightening.

Not every time I open a browser tab, for instance, do I want to get sucked into e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

dgunn
My current start page is google with instant on. But, interestingly, it used to be mint.com. I became very addicted to mint for a period of about 3 months. After that initial phase, I never used it again. Maybe I burnt myself out.
gyardley
These days, my github account.
wysiwtf
I use about:blank

I think this started years ago when connection speeds were slower I'd hate to have anything load up automatically.