Most-favorited Hacker News posts

Post by narag » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #93

narag wrote: post #89

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It's relatively new. Before we used upvotes. Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that and even worse: sometimes I upvote a story without following the link, just using the upvote as a "read later" bookmark because I found the title intriguing. Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment, even though the article itself is crappy. Time ago…

Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment If you didn’t know, you can “favorite” comments, too.

Post by adyavanapalli » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

silisili wrote: post #203

baby wrote: post #199

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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: W…

Post by giancarlostoro » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #88

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…

When I emailed mods to argue that the 'web' button should be restored[1], I was told by dang that he was actually considering removing 'hide' and 'favorite' too, because people rarely use those features. (I routinely use 'hide' but hardly ever use 'favorite'.) Btw, 'favorite' may be lesser-known but it's certainly not hard to use. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762479

Post by Sulamitachica » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:43 PM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #221

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…

Maybe people are favoriting Ask HN items because there are no external links. I know that when there's a good HN discussion of a link, I usually bookmark the link itself, knowing that I can easily use that to look up HN discussions of it later. But if there is no external link, the only option is to bookmark the HN discussion itself. Ask HN are just so hugely valuable. There are so many smart, experienced people here…

Post by laurex » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

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…