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Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by jgrahamc »

LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #3
fredley wrote: post #2

Just out of interest, how did you discover this?

I think he may have read the code that makes up hackernews. If I remember correctly its open source.

That functionality is not present in the release of Hacker News that goes with arc here: http://arclanguage.org/install

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by chmike »

Great option. I was waiting for such an option.

Another problem I have is that I keep scanning the front page list of references to see if a new article popped in somewhere in the list between the last time I checked.

This is inefficient. My impression is that providing a list of references sorted by the time they reached the threshold would do the trick. Though, this would require a significant amount of work to produce. Being able to precompute the sorted list and share it with many users would allow to cache it.

So I raise the question if it is not preferable to propose predefined threshold values. How much difference would it make to have a threshold at 55 and 54 anyway.

Let say you propose a treshold at 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100 for example, the pages could be precomputed and cached.

A script on the browser side could keep track of the last references seen and show older articles in gray for instance.

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by pooriaazimi »

chmike wrote: post #7

Great option. I was waiting for such an option. Another problem I have is that I keep scanning the front page list of references to see if a new article popped in somewhere in the list between the last time I checked. This is inefficient. My impression is that providing a list of references sorted by the time they reached the threshold would do the trick. Though, this would require a significant amount of work to pro…

http://hckrnews.com is all you need.

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by espinchi »

Here's the recent top ten submissions into Hacker News (all above 440 points). I'm happy to see the top ten has a pretty good variety of topics.

    * Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (jwz.org)
    * Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app (selfstarter.us)
    * 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (fastcompany.com)
    * Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
    * I Have 50 Dollars (ihave50dollars.com)
    * Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
    * The Five Stages of Hosting (blog.pinboard.in)
    * Where has all the money in the world gone? (reddit.com)
    * If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
    * Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool (realdanlyons.com)
EDIT: As rwos as pooriaazimi point out, these are not the absolute top ten, but only the top ten among the recent submissions. My bad!
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