I visually scan extremely quickly, because my browser has an autopager that works on HN/latest , and I go one day back.

I copy the day's worth, open up SeaMonkey, get a new composer page and paste the html into it.

No slight on Algolia, this lets me search locally.

In those visual scans, since there are only so many hours in the day, I grab a few flying by and once in a while, go to /best to see which elephants I missed.

I never look at the front page, since it's so brief, I don't know the algo going on, and TBH, I rarely find something that interests me. A lot of my interest is in optical thingys and open source goodies that never make the front page, nor best.