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Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)
- aragonite 3y agoDiscussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073
- paulpauper 3y agoSo You Want to Learn Physics this one is so popular, but I wonder of the millions of readers how many actually carried this out
- Jagerbizzle 3y agoI bookmark things like this all the time, and my bookmark list is effectively a black hole. I managed to get through two separate “learn something about complicated topic in one weekend” this year, so I’ll call that a W.
- Wolfenstein98k 3y agoSimilar for me. It is almost as if once I bookmark something, it disappears from the internet. I never see it again.
- jpm_sd 3y agoBookmarks are a rare example of Write-Only Memory, or WOM.
- bdcravens 3y agoNo clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
- macintux 3y agoI managed to hit rate limiting on the site as I tried to retrieve my full list of favorites. I appear to have ~2000 submissions favorited for "future reading". Somehow I doubt I'll make my way through the entire list.
- alberth 3y ago0 favorites for me. Been on HN 12-years.
- jsolson 3y agoYeah, zero favorites, joined in Feb 2007.
- RandomWorker 3y agoWell this explains 90 faves putting a topic at nr 1.
- echelon 3y agoI typically favorite ~30 articles a week. I favorite more often than I upvote. I currently have 5,490 [1] favorited articles. I tell myself I'm training an interest classifier on this data... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183 https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183
- serial_dev 3y agoI use upvotes exclusively, and I assume it's the typical user behavior: Algolia HN search lists posts sorted by upvotes, and the most popular post has 6k+ upvotes, whereas the most favorites had (3 years ago) 90 faves. https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
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- Modified3019 3y agoYeah typically I just dump things in the “reading list” on phone, which I eventually exfiltrate and clear every year or so on my phone, or add it to a list via the onetab extension on desktop. Most of this is just “emotional support bookmarks” because I’m a pathological data hoarder that apparently needs to catalog and sort the entirety of human knowledge. Saving a list of links tricks my brain into releasing this intrusive anxiety and keeps me from engaging in this odd sort of compulsion. But out of a thousand or two links a year, there are in fact a few dozen times I reach back to reference or use something I found. Haven’t learned physic though. So far unit conversion, geometry and algebra have been all I’ve needed in my line of work in regards to equation solving, as I did agricultural plot trials for a bit.
- maroonblazer 3y agoI'm not super-familiar with observablehq.com. Is there a way for us to run this query for 2023? Or is that only possible by the author of this list?
- xwowsersx 3y agoOk, that Web Design in 4 minutes post is awesome.
- kqr2 3y agoSomewhat ironically his https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook is 404
- LTL_FTC 3y agoI have this thing where I favorite articles so I can read them later and never do. Tsundoku but digitally and so way easier on my back when I move.
- remarkEon 3y agoI do this too and maybe make it through ~70% of what I've upvoted.
- rismay 3y agoI didn’t even know you could favorite…