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Hacker News Classic
- marcellus23 3y agoWhat's the difference?
- rany_ 3y agoIt seems like it uses a different ranking system. Edit: found this answer from an older post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833242
- bazmattaz 3y agoAnd to the authors final point that it’s a slower changing version of the homepage then….what’s the point?
- robg 3y agoGiving people time to read stuff before it disappears.
- AdamH12113 3y agoQuoting the answer (by pg): "It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage."
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoThe irony of change over time being seen as decline on a tech forum. Let's all put our brains in glass jars in virtual static universes so our thoughts and behaviors don't change
- mikepurvis 3y agoThat doesn't seem like a meaningful takeaway unless those first-year users are also only seeing the "classic" homepage. Most people aren't individually reviewing new-page submissions, they're voting for stuff that's already popular on the default frontpage. First-year users aren't immune to this— they're primarily voting up stuff that others already voted for. So it makes perfect sense that "classic" under this model would be a delayed version of default; indeed, one should expect that result with any randomly selected 10% of the voting userbase.
- robg 3y agoI had forgotten about the best list. It deserves a spot in the header IMO. https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
- jedberg 3y agoIt's the same ranking algorithm but only votes from users who registered in the first year count.
- benbristow 3y agoHow do you get more classic with Hacker News? Back to plaintext via BBS/Telnet?!
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI'd be surprised if nobody's hacked together an interface for that. Some light googling didn't lead me to anything though.
- ryanklee 3y agoIt's the algo, not the display
- h2odragon 3y agoread on one of these: https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Teletype_Model_43 https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Teletype_Model_43
- paulpauper 3y agono css. strip out everything
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- leoff 3y agocan we have a /dark next?
- andreynering 3y agoDark Reader does the job. Can be used on mobile via Firefox for Android as well. https://darkreader.org/ https://darkreader.org/
- antifa 3y agodarkreader doesn't look perfect without some tweaking, plus more CSS changes are necessary for mobile.
- idbehold 3y agoI use dark reader, but I just know one day I'll wake up to news that it had secretly been sold a month prior and had been doing all kinds of nefarious things. This is inherently a problem with browser extensions that both auto-update and basically require access to every website.
- andreynering 3y agoI feel your pain. Good thing that more and more site and apps are supporting dark modes as time passes. Many supports automatic switching based on OS/browser setting as well, what is great. I dream with the day where this extension won't be needed anymore. Hopefully HN itself will support it someday.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoModern HN does it as well: https://www.modernhn.com/ https://www.modernhn.com/ I do like it if for no other reason that the permissions are actually razor-focused to: - Access your data for news.ycombinator.com - Access your data for extensionpay.com - Access your data for hacker-news.firebaseio.com As opposed to every other extension that claims to enhance Youtube.com but requires access to all of your browser data, etc.
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- dpflan 3y agoSee the `Lists` section at the footer for more options, but the `/classic` endpoint seems to be an easter-egg? (not in the "documentation" links possible in the footer): https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists front Front page submissions for a given day (e.g. 2016-06-20) pool Links selected for a second chance at the front page invited Overlooked links, invited to repost highlights Particularly interesting comments shownew The latest Show HN posts asknew The latest Ask HN (text) posts best Highest-voted recent links bestcomments Highest-voted recent comments active Most active current discussions leaders Users with most karma noobstories Submissions from new accounts noobcomments Comments from new accounts whoishiring Monthly "Who Is Hiring" threads launches Launches of YC startups
- dang 3y agoI've put /classics on there now.
- dang 3y agoPosts by pg about /classic: HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271 - May 2009 (107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611251 (May 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830485 (Sept 2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619602 (Aug 2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809683 (Oct 2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513 (Jan 2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166229 (Oct 2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025810 (May 2012) I posted this about it a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787385 (Jan 2021) Edit: maybe we should add a query param so you can decide how ancient you want the contributing upvoters to be
- rumblestrut 3y agoI realize this isn't about the diplay, but for those of you looking for a different UI, I use https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com every day.
- downboots 3y agoHow about all <site> posts by <user> over <points> ?