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Surprising how quickly big news disappear from the front page. Hacker News seems to be optimized for people who check the website multiple times per day.

pjmlp 2y ago
Gotta to do something between CI/CD deployments. :)
buran77 2y ago
I'm also periodically surprised that topics that seem to be of core interest and very popular on HN just drop off the front page in a matter of hours. Meanwhile discussions like this one [0] (which stayed on the front page with not even 20 upvotes and 4-5 comments for almost 20h before some discussion picked up) seem to artificially stay on the front page for a day or more. It's probably less algorithmic and more arbitrary. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067079
tgv 2y ago
Try something like https://news.ycombinator.com/?over=100 https://news.ycombinator.com/?over=100. It decays less quickly (at the expense of lesser scoring, recent posts).
- mattmanser 2y ago
  Looking at that list HN has really shifted from a tech entrepreneur website to a programmer, especially linux, centric site. That is nothing like the list I would have seen 15 years ago when I first joined in 2009. Then again I don't miss the "101 ways to not need sleep and work all night on your startup" posts. Really seems to have shifted away from anything entrepreneurship or running your own business, the mantle it took over from Joel's "Business of Software" forum. Wonder where that discussion's all gone. Plus I just got a reminder how rubbish Google is right now and how vulnerable they are to having their lunch eaten. I couldn't remember what Joel Spolsky's foum was called, and it kept returning absolute crap for various search terms that would have instantly worked 5 years ago. God, I sound like a grumpy old man, but the internet has turned shite. Or at least how I consume it has.
liamYC 2y ago
I built an email notifier for alerting me when there is a popular news article which I defined by X number of comments. I think forums like hacker news are a really cool indicator for an emerging technology, an opportunity, or some exciting tech story. I get a tonne of false positives though, mostly articles that are inflammatory get sent to me. However, crowd strike triggered it as did the release of chat gpt so there are some hits
temp_account_32 2y ago
the algorithm that fudges the order of the front page can be so annoying sometimes, i accidentally refresh the page, and a link that was top 10 on the front page a few minutes ago is now buried in page 3 suddenly
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  That's not the reason I use https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ , but it's another good reason.
greenchair 2y ago
It probably has more to do with employees working at the company downvoting the thread.
klarxa 2y ago
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pjmlp 2y ago

Gotta to do something between CI/CD deployments. :)

buran77 2y ago

I'm also periodically surprised that topics that seem to be of core interest and very popular on HN just drop off the front page in a matter of hours. Meanwhile discussions like this one [0] (which stayed on the front page with not even 20 upvotes and 4-5 comments for almost 20h before some discussion picked up) seem to artificially stay on the front page for a day or more. It's probably less algorithmic and more arbitrary. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067079

tgv 2y ago

Try something like https://news.ycombinator.com/?over=100 https://news.ycombinator.com/?over=100. It decays less quickly (at the expense of lesser scoring, recent posts).

mattmanser 2y ago
Looking at that list HN has really shifted from a tech entrepreneur website to a programmer, especially linux, centric site. That is nothing like the list I would have seen 15 years ago when I first joined in 2009. Then again I don't miss the "101 ways to not need sleep and work all night on your startup" posts. Really seems to have shifted away from anything entrepreneurship or running your own business, the mantle it took over from Joel's "Business of Software" forum. Wonder where that discussion's all gone. Plus I just got a reminder how rubbish Google is right now and how vulnerable they are to having their lunch eaten. I couldn't remember what Joel Spolsky's foum was called, and it kept returning absolute crap for various search terms that would have instantly worked 5 years ago. God, I sound like a grumpy old man, but the internet has turned shite. Or at least how I consume it has.

liamYC 2y ago

I built an email notifier for alerting me when there is a popular news article which I defined by X number of comments. I think forums like hacker news are a really cool indicator for an emerging technology, an opportunity, or some exciting tech story. I get a tonne of false positives though, mostly articles that are inflammatory get sent to me. However, crowd strike triggered it as did the release of chat gpt so there are some hits

temp_account_32 2y ago

the algorithm that fudges the order of the front page can be so annoying sometimes, i accidentally refresh the page, and a link that was top 10 on the front page a few minutes ago is now buried in page 3 suddenly

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
That's not the reason I use https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ , but it's another good reason.

greenchair 2y ago

It probably has more to do with employees working at the company downvoting the thread.

klarxa 2y ago

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