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In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I kno

by zainny 13y ago

In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge. I have no idea why this and other sections (https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists) aren't linked from the main page in a prominent visible manner - especially /best which is great for people like me who check in every few days.

yfefyf 13y ago
Thank you. I've never heard of that either
arvindsinghy 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I never knew about Best and Lists. :)
level09 13y ago
I used to go to http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com to get a similar list, but this seems to use a different algorithm.
- redidas 13y ago
  I haven't been to the Hacker News homepage for a long time since using hckrnews. Its such a nice way to get a quick overview of the day.
ra 13y ago
It's the first link in the footer.
petercooper 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders is another fun page that used to be on the header a couple of years ago. Also, I have a simple site that tries to take a snapshot of the HN front page every hour so that I can catch up if I'm away for a few days: http://hackerslide.com/ http://hackerslide.com/
- deleted 13y ago
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- xauronx 13y ago
  Oh cool! I'm on HN pretty constantly and a quick slide showed me that I'm not on quite as always as I thought.
- tonymarks 13y ago
  Nice idea.
dangoldin 13y ago
Neat - I completely forgot about this. If anyone's interested in these different views on top of HN I created http://yahnr.com/ http://yahnr.com/ a while ago that just shows the top stories by vote from the past 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes. I mostly did it as a way to generate a "pseudo-static" site that is entirely hosted on S3 with a job that just dumps JSON files to it every 15 mins.
jwmoz 13y ago
Agree. I had no idea.
lelf 13y ago
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  How did you find that? I've been using HN for a while, and lurking even longer, but never stumbled across that.
  - lelf 13y ago
    I honestly don't remember. Maybe some thread like this one. Or some googling.
- hack_edu 13y ago
  Now, if we only had this comments within threads...

by zainny 13y ago

yfefyf 13y ago

Thank you. I've never heard of that either

arvindsinghy 13y ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I never knew about Best and Lists. :)

level09 13y ago

I used to go to http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com to get a similar list, but this seems to use a different algorithm.

redidas 13y ago
I haven't been to the Hacker News homepage for a long time since using hckrnews. Its such a nice way to get a quick overview of the day.

ra 13y ago

It's the first link in the footer.

petercooper 13y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders is another fun page that used to be on the header a couple of years ago. Also, I have a simple site that tries to take a snapshot of the HN front page every hour so that I can catch up if I'm away for a few days: http://hackerslide.com/ http://hackerslide.com/

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xauronx 13y ago
Oh cool! I'm on HN pretty constantly and a quick slide showed me that I'm not on quite as always as I thought.
tonymarks 13y ago
Nice idea.

dangoldin 13y ago

Neat - I completely forgot about this. If anyone's interested in these different views on top of HN I created http://yahnr.com/ http://yahnr.com/ a while ago that just shows the top stories by vote from the past 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes. I mostly did it as a way to generate a "pseudo-static" site that is entirely hosted on S3 with a job that just dumps JSON files to it every 15 mins.

jwmoz 13y ago

Agree. I had no idea.

lelf 13y ago

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256

kintamanimatt 13y ago
How did you find that? I've been using HN for a while, and lurking even longer, but never stumbled across that.
- lelf 13y ago
  I honestly don't remember. Maybe some thread like this one. Or some googling.
hack_edu 13y ago
Now, if we only had this comments within threads...