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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by kamilszybalski »

dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by kamilszybalski »

owenversteeg wrote: post #155

I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments? If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely w…

Completely agree, I almost always screen comments before I get to the article.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by silisili »

baby wrote: post #199
dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

This needs links :( a gist perhaps?

1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418

2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744

4. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072

5. Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581361

6. Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588727

7. Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264911

8. Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786853

9. Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919115

10. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151144

11. Questions to ask a company during a job interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20916749

12. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

13. Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092657

14. Systems Design for Advanced Beginners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904000

15. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400375

16. Teach Yourself Computer Science - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23588896

17. Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21585235

18. How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238135

19. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105229

20. Machine Learning Crash Course - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16493489

21. Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073

22. Gears - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310813

23. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875

24. A guide to difficult conversations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490573

25. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120275

26. Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768

27. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229241

28. Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712194

29. Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651

30. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805624

31. Build Your Own React - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536789

32. Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18104814

33. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881

34. The missing semester of CS education - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226380

35. Medium-hard SQL interview questions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053981

36. The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163251

37. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276184

38. Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22235279

39. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

40. Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14486657

41. Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602538

42. Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19900955

43. Advanced Data Structures (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044876

44. Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264048

45. Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713056

46. Tools for Better Thinking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23339830

47. Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498

48. Startup idea checklist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20254057

49. Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999659

50. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #45
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.

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…

Oh, sorry, I didn't read / comprehend your comment properly earlier.

Firstly, try contacting hn@ycombinator.com detailing what you'd like to build and see if they're interested / able to collaborate or provide you the necessary access / APIs.

I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but have contacted the mods from time to time and found them eminently approachable.

Secondly, if you can't see the up or down vote buttons, try clicking on a comment or submissions time stamp immediately after the username. For reasons I don't know sometimes the vote buttons aren't displayed in the regular view.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by gorgoiler »

dang wrote: post #194
gorgoiler wrote: post #185

clicks favourite Maybe if the favouriteness could be transitive in some way? It could be called “favouriterank” and we could use it to index the web and surface the best pages when people search for things they are interested in?

The original intention of the feature was to try to derive some interesting signal from collective usage (that's why HN favorites are public) so that's an interesting suggestion.

I confess: I didn’t write it in a particularly serious tone (pfff, “favouriterank” indeed — a comparison to the early days of a pre-monetized google.com) but behind it was a serious idea.

I appreciate the charitable response.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by 135792468 »

kamilszybalski wrote: post #201
dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

SEOs happened

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by maire »

kamilszybalski wrote: post #201
dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

I disabled my Quora account when I discovered it was selling my data.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by razster »

sosborn wrote: post #174
reaperducer wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions. Very interesting, after the very active recent discussion about discoverability in user interfaces. It's like HN hired someone from the iOS design team to come up with the notion of "timestamp" = "favorite."

Another way to look at it is that "timestamp" = "permalink", which is a fairly common pattern (I'm not trying to imply that it is intuitive, just that it is common). Once you are at the permalink you have a range of options available to you.

Same, as a permalink. I'll bookmark the permalink then run it through archive.org using a simple addons of mine, in case HN goes down I will have an archive backup.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by kohtatsu »

tlarkworthy wrote: post #186
dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

I did normalize by number of favorites too, so each person had 1 vote shared over all their favorites. The idea that a person who only had one favourite was a really strong signal for that single link, whereas people who have lots of favorites are using it differently to what I want to select for. At some point I had a similar selection of Ask HN dominance. One problem with my data is I only grabbed the first page of…

I'd actually assume one favourite to be a misclick.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by jjohansson »

135792468 wrote: post #206
kamilszybalski wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

SEOs happened

External links from Quora have the rel=nofollow attribute, so they don't help with SEO. Most SEOs would understand this.
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