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Best of Hacker News

44 points by ma2rten 15y ago

kahawe 15y ago
A reddit link amongst the top 3... shame on you HN.
- xtacy 15y ago
  Why shame? You should check the first comment on that post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004210 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004210
  - kahawe 15y ago
    I move: pareidolia. Also, this oh-so-touching story smells way too much of 4chan/reddit style trolling.
Mithrandir 15y ago
Thank you for providing the link! I'd trying been trying to get it before, but for some reason it wouldn't work.
bfung 15y ago
funny, i was just mucking with the api.hnsearch.com yesterday for the exact same query. Then I got distracted with the nice weather... Here's the same query w/the rest api, but w/o paging. use the parameters start and limit for paging. http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filter[fields][type]=submission&sortby=points%20desc http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
tokenadult 15y ago
I'm sure that eventually the "I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count" thread will fall out of the top ten. The sooner, the better as far as I am concerned. If you haven't already upvoted the thread "How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)," you should. That is a classic HN thread, full of interesting ideas, and well deserves your upvote even after most of the reported bugs have been fixed. (Disclaimer: I don't have any karma dogs in this fight. I just like good, on-topic content here.)
- ma2rten 15y ago
  I noticed that most stories are quite recent, so I'd say if you normalize for total upvotes in the period that one would prolly be on top.
- dfranke 15y ago
  Ah ha! This comment explains where my 7 points of mystery karma came from :-).
alorres 15y ago
The filter on date seems like the comments on Hacker News. Only difference is an occasional link will appear in the feed. Just wondering as to why comments are included in the filter.
duck 15y ago
Highest vote counts != Best of (IMHO)
- coderdude 15y ago
  You know this list is flawed when the 8th entry for Best of Hacker News is "Osama bin Laden Is Dead."
- ma2rten 15y ago
  Of cause it is not. It was more link bait by me then anything. It would even go as far to say none of the stories on the first page would make it into my best of collection. But I do think that it is interesting none the less.
biot 15y ago
Not that karma means anything, but it's amazing that the user who submitted Bellard's Linux-in-browser story received more karma from submitting that one URL than I have for the hundreds of comments I've made over the last eight months.
shii 15y ago
This is the true best of HN, imo: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/ http://www.skrenta.com/hn/

Best of Hacker News

44 points by ma2rten 15y ago

kahawe 15y ago

A reddit link amongst the top 3... shame on you HN.

xtacy 15y ago
Why shame? You should check the first comment on that post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004210 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004210
- kahawe 15y ago
  I move: pareidolia. Also, this oh-so-touching story smells way too much of 4chan/reddit style trolling.

Mithrandir 15y ago

Thank you for providing the link! I'd trying been trying to get it before, but for some reason it wouldn't work.

bfung 15y ago

funny, i was just mucking with the api.hnsearch.com yesterday for the exact same query. Then I got distracted with the nice weather... Here's the same query w/the rest api, but w/o paging. use the parameters start and limit for paging. http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filter[fields][type]=submission&sortby=points%20desc http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...

tokenadult 15y ago

I'm sure that eventually the "I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count" thread will fall out of the top ten. The sooner, the better as far as I am concerned. If you haven't already upvoted the thread "How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)," you should. That is a classic HN thread, full of interesting ideas, and well deserves your upvote even after most of the reported bugs have been fixed. (Disclaimer: I don't have any karma dogs in this fight. I just like good, on-topic content here.)

ma2rten 15y ago
I noticed that most stories are quite recent, so I'd say if you normalize for total upvotes in the period that one would prolly be on top.
dfranke 15y ago
Ah ha! This comment explains where my 7 points of mystery karma came from :-).

alorres 15y ago

The filter on date seems like the comments on Hacker News. Only difference is an occasional link will appear in the feed. Just wondering as to why comments are included in the filter.

duck 15y ago

Highest vote counts != Best of (IMHO)

coderdude 15y ago
You know this list is flawed when the 8th entry for Best of Hacker News is "Osama bin Laden Is Dead."
ma2rten 15y ago
Of cause it is not. It was more link bait by me then anything. It would even go as far to say none of the stories on the first page would make it into my best of collection. But I do think that it is interesting none the less.

biot 15y ago

Not that karma means anything, but it's amazing that the user who submitted Bellard's Linux-in-browser story received more karma from submitting that one URL than I have for the hundreds of comments I've made over the last eight months.

shii 15y ago

This is the true best of HN, imo: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/ http://www.skrenta.com/hn/