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Ask HN: Did HN's page rankings become more extreme?
Sorry, the usual question... :P
This morning I read the post "The Rust Performance Book (2020)" and when I wanted to upvote it 10 hours later I had to go to page #4 (ranked currently #108 with 184 votes "20 hours ago") => finding it on page #4 was weird for me (I would have never found that precious post if I would have checked HN only this evening).
The usual reply to my kind of question is "click on 'past' to see a kind-of-better ranking" but after having done that exactly >now< I see for example:
- at position #41 "Logo and Learning (2015)" (63 points, 3 days ago, 26 comments) and...
- at position #42 "America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach" ( 270 points, 1 day ago, 569 comments) - btw. I read this and for me it wasn't great but still interesting, so in the end I liked it, at least 10000 times more than "logo and learning" (which I glanced over).
I don't like the current ranking :(
- gus_massa 4y agoYou can try with https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best that orders with more weight in points and less weight in freshness. And in the oposite direction, also https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest that is the stream of new post. More are bad, but it's important to discover the good one and upvote them.
- zepearl 4y agoThanks a lot about the "best"-link :) (I use the "newest" from time to time) I just became aware that "best" is apparently it's a hidden link/path, right? I don't see it listed at the top together with "new/past/etc...".
- gus_massa 4y agoThere are a few in https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (that is linked at the bottom of the page).