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- remram 3y agoWhat are the other pages that don't show on the top navbar unless you're already there? /upvoted /submitted /favorites /hidden are on your profile page, but clearly there's a few more.
- agnokapathetic 3y agohttps://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker-news-lists https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
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- p-e-w 3y ago> However, in maintaining its simplicity, many new features and behaviors added over the years on Hacker News are not fully documented other than the occasional comments from staff. Ahahaha what?!? That is the opposite of "simplicity". Instead of exposing the functionality, it is hidden away but still active, and to know how it works you have to hunt through potentially thousands of comments, which might already have been obsoleted by later comments. What's wrong with just having a help page? Or a sitemap? Sitemaps are pretty old school, they should be right up HN's alley, no?
- HlessClaudesman 3y agoAnd verily, it was bequeathed that only the high priests and priestesses may sup from the hamburger menu of The YC Lord's bountiful functionality.
- moffkalast 3y agoAfaik HN is built around the idea of being as hard to use as possible, to avoid becoming Reddit.
- voynich 3y agoYou can find them at the "lists" link at the bottom of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- thiht 3y ago/active is the real Hacker News front page IMO
- olalonde 3y agoHow is that different from https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments?
- filoleg 3y agoNot sure about a comprehensive list of differences, but, for one, /highlights page shows all comments there in a chronological order of when they were posted (while /bestcomments doesn't).
- dang 3y ago/bestcomments is a mechanical ranking by upvote count, so 'best' is a misnomer. /highlights is a manually curated list, designed for overlooked gems. If you or anyone notices an overlooked gem, from now or any time in the past, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll add it!
- andreygrehov 3y agoAren’t manual curators biased towards their beliefs? What makes a comment a “gem” from the perspective of a curator?
- ftxbro 3y agoIt looks like one is a gem when it's by the maker of the thing under discussion, especially if it's an unexpected surprise!
- dang 3y agoAbsolutely - there are all sorts of amazing comments like that buried in HN's archives.
- WA 3y agoThat’s how I tell others about HN usually: it’s a news aggregator with comments for nerds, but the cool thing is, often someone chimes in and says "I was on the team who did this and here’s some more/different background info".
- lolinder 3y agodang explained the list here[0]. It looks like it's a curated list of comments, rather than algorithmic like the other pages. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249
- jader201 3y agoIn case you don’t visit the above link and discover the lists page[1] in the response, you may discover some other lists you didn’t know existed (like I didn’t). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- thrdbndndn 3y agoI know /lists, but it doesn't include /highlights for some reason.
- mysterydip 3y agoI was unaware, so thanks! TIL that a throwaway account has the 66th highest karma among commenters
- alexchamberlain 3y agoIs a 6 year old account that posts submissions and comments regularly really throwaway?
- 93po 3y agotechnically they're all throw away after the heat death of the universe
- bambax 3y agoasknew The latest Ask HN (i.e. text) posts shownew The latest Show HN posts Could we have in addition to those: bestask Highest rated Ask HN bestshow Highest rated Show HN And of course "best" could simply mean: "all, ordered by descending number of points". That would be pretty cool.
- motohagiography 3y agoThere's some amazing, magical humanity in there.
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- ftxbro 3y agoI'm sorry it looks like some creepy list of comments that dox the commenter. Even dang highlighted one of his own comment, where he doxes someone else who commented in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940228
- throwaway892238 3y agoYou keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means
- ftxbro 3y agoIt's a list of comments where people reveal personal information about themselves.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoPurposefully posting things about yourself isn't doxxing, nor is linking to a post of somebody posting personal information about themselves. They publicly posted it, they're fine with it being public.
- ftxbro 3y agoOK but I still think it's creepy to track a list of what people have said about themselves.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoIt's a collection of interesting anecdotes. Most people are flattered when others find their anecdotes interesting.
- SleekoNiko 3y agoI think you've just described all social media. :)
- irrational 3y agoWhat is APL? I searched for “APL database” and didn’t find anything that seemed related.
- walterbell 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) > APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array ... In 1979, Iverson received the Turing Award for his work on APL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) > The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui, is an array programming language based primarily on APL (also by Iverson). To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set ... J is a very terse array programming language, and is most suited to mathematical and statistical programming, especially when performing operations on matrices ... Since March 2011, J is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
- Stratoscope 3y agoToo much fun to see myself in this list, and especially because it links to a story where I explained that "fire an event" is a weed reference...
- benatkin 3y agojrockway and clay_shirky stand out to me :)
- penguin_booze 3y agoI still find it surprising that HN doesn't offer RSS feed(s). I consume mostly all my daily web content via RSS. Right now, I use a service hosted on github.io - it works well, but there's always this second-handedness about it.
- h4ch1 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss This seems to exist.