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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by tlarkworthy »

password4321 wrote: post #65
tlarkworthy wrote: post #50

The 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…

How did you get the list of HN users to scrape favorites from?

BigQuery public dataset https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304326

Most active was defined by comment count.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by hombre_fatal »

nkurz wrote: post #25
1f60c wrote: post #14

Where can you find the list of most active Hacker News users?

It depends on how you define "active", but if you click on the Lists link at the bottom of this page, and then on Leaders, you find an ordered list of the users with the most points: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders .

HN's hall of shame.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by bovermyer »

tidenly wrote: post #3
asutekku wrote: post #2

Honestly, 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 honestly never even noticed it was a feature until you just mentioned it here.

I'm in the same boat. Even knowing it's there now, I have to look hard for it; there's no visual anchor to draw my eye there.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by bad_user »

ekianjo wrote: post #38
bad_user wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because I already have bookmarks in my browser, marking articles as favorite on HN would give me no value.

HN Comments is where the money is, not the stories themselves.

Comments have links that can be bookmarked too, under that timestamp, here's yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352253

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by dhimes »

bovermyer wrote: post #74
tidenly wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly never even noticed it was a feature until you just mentioned it here.

I'm in the same boat. Even knowing it's there now, I have to look hard for it; there's no visual anchor to draw my eye there.

I've seen it there for years but have no idea what it does. I don't really care-I bookmark things I like.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by [deleted] »

tlarkworthy wrote: post #50

The 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…

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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by CydeWeys »

gambiting wrote: post #9
have_faith wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto, I didn't ever notice it and I've been on here for years.

I'm on 10k+ karma and I literally didn't know it existed.

20k+ karma here and same. I haven't favorited so much as a single article. Didn't realize it was an option.

So the top favorited list is probably biased in some way towards the type of people more likely to discover and use this feature. I just don't know exactly what that entails.

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