Where can you find the list of most active Hacker News users?
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Most-favorited Hacker News posts
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#52Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.
I use it as a super-upvote. I try to only favourite the cream of the crop, in the hopes someone will stumble into my favourites list and enjoy them. I mostly favourite comments not submissions though.
> in the hopes someone will stumble into my favourites list and enjoy them.
I did. Thank you!
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#53What are the most upvoted HN posts of all time?
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#54What are the most upvoted HN posts of all time?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing I wish were possible is to search through upvoted content and favorited content by title and even comments in either. I have upvoted so much stuff a lot of it becomes harder to find if I cant narrow it down by what is relevant to me. Its the one killer feature HN is missing for me. Outside of that one thing I think HN is perfect thus far. Mostly the favorites feature is used by me when I cant upvote somethi…
Unless I'm mistaken, HN exposes that data so anyone can build those features as either a browser add-on or as a separate site built on the data? One of the things I super appreciate about HN is the (almost) complete abcense of feature creep.
I don't think I've ever seen this on any third party search tools for HN. If it's an actual feature it is highly under documented. The filtering that HN does is on all comments / stories (by post title) but you don't get to filter down by what a user has upvoted since that data is private to the user, only favorited data is public.
I don't think this is a feature creep, I think it's useful. Otherwise I'm going to have to code something to scrape through HN for me and provide that additional context, and even then I still would be missing a way to filter down on HN comment data vs my own local db of upvoted materials.
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#56That is very good, if only a HN-lore exist, there are some links that are submitted to HN regularly, and every 6 months new people discover them.
Great stories people here like sharing, articles, books, etc.. create a ranked list of HN folklore and traditions.
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#57What are the most upvoted HN posts of all time?
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#58I will fav this post, so your list will have a chance to be recursively reachable.
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#59Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.
I use the mobile app and its horrible. I can't often save comments, i can't see my comment threads, ... There are probably many HN features nobody knows about because the UI doesn't expose them.
Which on are you using? There are many.
I use this. It is very good imo -https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
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#60The fact that favorites are a hidden feature and hard to use made me think the quality of the curation signal would be even better. Also the fact the HackerNews API, Angolia don't expose this feature made it even more interesting to aggregate. Hope you like it and as it was a pain gathering the data, I put it in an observable notebook so hopefully we don't need to gather that dataset again for a while. The learning r…
Hidden? They're in plain sight at the top of every article page.