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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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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…

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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#232
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 guarantee that a lot of favorites are just ‘to read later’. In that model, articles themselves are read at once or go into Pocket-like services, with selective perusal of comment sections. In most cases, comments are sorta predictable, or interesting perspectives are quickly exhausted—and only especially rich threads go into the favorites to later be pored over. However, interesting ‘Ask HNs’ are obviously followed by lots of interesting comments (hopefully), so they fall straight into the category to be sorted out with attention.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been missing "web" quite a bit and was just considering emailing him to ask if it was now okay to flag links to inaccessible content!

Why wouldn't it be? Unless you're trying to flag stuff a year after it's been posted, I would expect at least that a posted link would be accessible to read. Unless what you mean is "inaccessible" in the sense of "not accessible to people with disabilities," in which case, good luck flagging a large percent of everything that gets posted. :/

Unfortunately, links often go to paywalled content. They each waste my time and make HN worse.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#235
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…

What about most favorited comments?

140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615

138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603013

108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

93 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436420

86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739

81 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042400

81 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948078

76 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199544

65 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12901356

63 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083

60 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833

58 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212

57 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

57 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18536601

55 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

55 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21260001

54 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402387

53 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104

53 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285438

52 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791601

51 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566

51 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787313

50 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900448

49 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341567

47 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604657

42 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20609978

42 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439478

40 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852771

39 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12509533

38 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22808280

38 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082

37 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797

37 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21151830

37 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716969

36 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563

36 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19775789

35 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

33 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20571219

33 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260087

33 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17714304

32 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043088

32 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253

30 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341288

29 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789438

29 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947

29 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14162853

28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20869111

28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720160

28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287767

28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055389

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#236
What's amazed me down the years is where some random user will reveal they are the developer behind some well known software, or the author of a famous book etc. Then when you look at their profile you'll see that they've been a member for years but only have a small amount of karma.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#238
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…

Could you please post this as a “Tell HN” post so that we can all favorite it and make it the most favorited post?

Jokes aside, such an official list posted once in a while (once a year) could be useful.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removing "hide" is the wrong call. People, especially in work environments, need to be able to hide links for all sorts of reasons. For example, if you work at Apple and there is an inflammatory article or if you've recently lost a family member to suicide and there is an article on a famous figure in the tech community committing suicide like Aaron Swartz, you probably don't want to see that on the homepage of HN fo…

I wish you could hide stories by keyword or by domain.

I feel like that should be doable with a ublock rule

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#240
post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thank you! Now I just wonder - did you use some command line magic to do this, or did you compose it manually? (no complaints if you did, but it would be interesting to know how to do that in a line of script). Anyway, thanks again.
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