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Hacker News Best

• h2odragon 2y ago
  its listed on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
  • vbezhenar 2y ago
    So /lists is another hidden page (:
    • raincole 2y ago
      No? It's at the footer.
      • vbezhenar 2y ago
        Indeed, it seems that my eyes are trained to ignore footers.
        • h2odragon 2y ago
          fight that training and you may discover all sorts of previously hidden, interesting details.
        • AdamN 2y ago
          And the top results of Google. I've recently had to re-train my brain on Kagi where the top results are now ... the actual top results and not ads.
• deleted 2y ago
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• mariocesar 2y ago
  Is there an explanation about how "best" is ranked over time? Is this for the last day or week? Most of the links are within the range of two days.
  • astennumero 2y ago
    That would be interesting. Right now looks like it's ranking them based on points.
    • optimalsolver 2y ago
      Unorthodox.
      • skilled 2y ago
        Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.
        • mnky9800n 2y ago
          What about AI?
          • philipwhiuk 2y ago
            AI is full of human interference.
            • mnky9800n 2y ago
              that was the joke...
        • cess11 2y ago
          Could easily implement an algorithm that ranks them based on number of new, non-hidden, non-flagged comments during the last 24 hours times the amount of hours since it was posted, which would manifest a 'best' metric where a thread that's really old but still draws discussion would be pushed to the top.
        • re-thc 2y ago
          > There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference. Time to tell the bots to vote!
• nicce 2y ago
  Seems like that "Best" is ending soon to the bests list.
• Brajeshwar 2y ago
  You will like @minimaxir's hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Some other interesting ones; - Hacker News Rankings https://hnrankings.info https://hnrankings.info - Stories removed from Front Page https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals - Title Edit Tracker https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app
  • begueradj 2y ago
    Interesting links. When I click on Ask link, I see the list of questions being asked by other members. But I can not post a question. What am I missing? I checked your first link but nothing is mentioned about this.
    • throwup238 2y ago
      You just submit a text post with “Ask HN” as the title prefix. Same with “Show HN”, it's automatically categorized by title.
      • begueradj 2y ago
        That's a new information to me. Thank you for the feedback.
• AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  Also note the similar Best Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments And I seem to recall seeing a "best of all time" comments, but I can't find a direct link to it. Anyone know the URL for that?
• deleted 2y ago
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• geor9e 2y ago
  Is there an RSS version of "best"? What is the actual definition, >x up votes? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss works but https://news.ycombinator.com/best/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/best/rss doesn't. I know of the alternative https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=10&comments=10 https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=10&comments=10 . Is that basically the same thing?
• Lockal 2y ago
  Better "best" - https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/