Hacker News Best

h2odragon 2 years ago |

its listed on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

vbezhenar 2 years ago | |

So /lists is another hidden page (:

raincole 2 years ago | | |

No? It's at the footer.

vbezhenar 2 years ago | | |

Indeed, it seems that my eyes are trained to ignore footers.

AdamN 2 years 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.

h2odragon 2 years ago | | |

fight that training and you may discover all sorts of previously hidden, interesting details.

Brajeshwar 2 years 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

Some other interesting ones;

- Hacker News Rankings https://hnrankings.info

- Stories removed from Front Page https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

- Title Edit Tracker https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app

begueradj 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago | | |

That's a new information to me. Thank you for the feedback.

mariocesar 2 years 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 2 years ago | |

That would be interesting. Right now looks like it's ranking them based on points.

optimalsolver 2 years ago | | |

Unorthodox.

skilled 2 years ago | | |

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

cess11 2 years 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 2 years ago | | |

> There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

Time to tell the bots to vote!

mnky9800n 2 years ago | | |

What about AI?

philipwhiuk 2 years ago | | |

AI is full of human interference.

AnimalMuppet 2 years ago |

Also note the similar Best Comments: 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?

geor9e 2 years ago |

Is there an RSS version of "best"? What is the actual definition, >x up votes? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss works but https://news.ycombinator.com/best/rss doesn't. I know of the alternative https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=10&comments=10 . Is that basically the same thing?

nicce 2 years ago |

Seems like that "Best" is ending soon to the bests list.

Lockal 2 years ago |

Better "best" - https://hn.algolia.com/