If by newest you mean new, then I check it several times a day. It's a nice way of finding interesting content and submissions that will never make it to the Frontpage either because of bad timing or whatever reason.

I wonder about the bias in this survey as it goes from newest to the main page.

From one that only ever opens the main page.

Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?

• goodmythical

  today at 3:14 PM

  Given that that link points to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest , yes.

• bstsb

  today at 2:59 PM

  it’s referring to the page available at /newest - the “new” link leads to it

• peesem

  today at 3:00 PM

  yes, the "new" anchor links to /newest

Usually when I've submitted something myself.

If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.

Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.

Very rarely, showdead on

Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.

I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.

Couple of times a year.

Twice a year

I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.

I rarely go to the front page.

I usually go through https://brutalist.report/ rather than HN's own 'new' link. It seems to filter out a lot of slop and self-promotion.