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Totally agree. There have been quite a few articles recently that fall into this category. pquerna's recent post about OpenSSL memory in node (and elsewhere) i

Totally agree. There have been quite a few articles recently that fall into this category. pquerna's recent post about OpenSSL memory in node (and elsewhere) is another that comes to mind. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411144 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411144 keep 'em coming I say!

TimothyBurgess 16y ago
Upvoted solely for "keep 'em coming!" This article was truly awesome. I'm kicking myself for having not thought of it before because it seems like such a simple concept! Makes me wonder what else out there I haven't thought of... ;)
derefr 16y ago
It's interesting that it's almost impossible to pin down a verbal guideline for what people should be submitting (besides "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity") but pretty easy to point to a given article and say that, yes, this definitely is Hacker News. It'd be pretty awesome if we could have an HN that's just this sort of stuff (with a strong tendency toward false-negatives vs. false-positives—i.e. no "maybe good", only "definitely good.") I wouldn't mind even if it only had two or three new posts per day—fewer, guaranteed posts means I could actually stand to add it to my RSS reader, vs. the current HN which is more of a firehose: good to stick a bottle in every once in a while, not good to stand in front of. Thinking on that, here's one way it could be implemented on top of the current HN: if there was some sort of "way, way up"-vote button that (besides being an actual "I wish I had N upvotes to give this" upvote-N-times button) worked as a sort of moral negative to flagging, such that when it had been hit [some threshold] times for an article, the article would get linked into the "/awesome" sublist, that might be enough to make it happen—if we trust the userbase to not abuse it. If everyone started to way-way-up-vote everything they currently just up-vote, perhaps one could stick a CAPTCHA (or three) on it to make it just annoying enough to disuade abuse (at the cost of further false negatives from people now too lazy to use it.)
- JonnieCache 16y ago
  You can filter the homepage for submissions with a minimum number of votes: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200 http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200 HN has loads of hidden features. I suggest judicious use of google's search operators to find them all.
  - danohuiginn 16y ago
    there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best, for (iirc) the top articles in the past 7 days. Somebody should really put together a guide to all these half-hidden features, either as a wiki or an individual effort.

TimothyBurgess 16y ago

Upvoted solely for "keep 'em coming!" This article was truly awesome. I'm kicking myself for having not thought of it before because it seems like such a simple concept! Makes me wonder what else out there I haven't thought of... ;)

derefr 16y ago

It's interesting that it's almost impossible to pin down a verbal guideline for what people should be submitting (besides "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity") but pretty easy to point to a given article and say that, yes, this definitely is Hacker News. It'd be pretty awesome if we could have an HN that's just this sort of stuff (with a strong tendency toward false-negatives vs. false-positives—i.e. no "maybe good", only "definitely good.") I wouldn't mind even if it only had two or three new posts per day—fewer, guaranteed posts means I could actually stand to add it to my RSS reader, vs. the current HN which is more of a firehose: good to stick a bottle in every once in a while, not good to stand in front of. Thinking on that, here's one way it could be implemented on top of the current HN: if there was some sort of "way, way up"-vote button that (besides being an actual "I wish I had N upvotes to give this" upvote-N-times button) worked as a sort of moral negative to flagging, such that when it had been hit [some threshold] times for an article, the article would get linked into the "/awesome" sublist, that might be enough to make it happen—if we trust the userbase to not abuse it. If everyone started to way-way-up-vote everything they currently just up-vote, perhaps one could stick a CAPTCHA (or three) on it to make it just annoying enough to disuade abuse (at the cost of further false negatives from people now too lazy to use it.)

JonnieCache 16y ago
You can filter the homepage for submissions with a minimum number of votes: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200 http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200 HN has loads of hidden features. I suggest judicious use of google's search operators to find them all.
- danohuiginn 16y ago
  there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best, for (iirc) the top articles in the past 7 days. Somebody should really put together a guide to all these half-hidden features, either as a wiki or an individual effort.