Hacker News Best • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News Best

#11

Post by skilled » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:10 PM UTC

optimalsolver wrote: post #9

astennumero wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be interesting. Right now looks like it's ranking them based on points.

Unorthodox.

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

Re: Hacker News Best

#12

Post by mnky9800n » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:18 PM UTC

skilled wrote: post #11

optimalsolver wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unorthodox.

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

What about AI?

Re: Hacker News Best

#13

Post by nicce » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:19 PM UTC

Seems like that "Best" is ending soon to the bests list.

Re: Hacker News Best

#14

Post by cess11 » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:20 PM UTC

skilled wrote: post #11

optimalsolver wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unorthodox.

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

Could easily implement an algorithm that ranks them based on number of new, non-hidden, non-flagged comments during the last 24 hours times the amount of hours since it was posted, which would manifest a 'best' metric where a thread that's really old but still draws discussion would be pushed to the top.

Re: Hacker News Best

#15

Post by Brajeshwar » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:21 PM UTC

You will like @minimaxir's hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

Some other interesting ones;

- Hacker News Rankings https://hnrankings.info

- Stories removed from Front Page https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

- Title Edit Tracker https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app

Re: Hacker News Best

#16

Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

Also note the similar Best Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

And I seem to recall seeing a "best of all time" comments, but I can't find a direct link to it. Anyone know the URL for that?

Re: Hacker News Best

#17

Post by philipwhiuk » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

mnky9800n wrote: post #12

skilled wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

What about AI?

AI is full of human interference.

Re: Hacker News Best

#18

Post by re-thc » Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:58 PM UTC

skilled wrote: post #11

optimalsolver wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unorthodox.

Objective. There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

> There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

Time to tell the bots to vote!

Re: Hacker News Best

#19

Post by AdamN » Thu, May 23, 2024, 1:22 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #7

raincole wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No? It's at the footer.

Indeed, it seems that my eyes are trained to ignore footers.

And the top results of Google. I've recently had to re-train my brain on Kagi where the top results are now ... the actual top results and not ads.

Re: Hacker News Best

#20

Post by begueradj » Thu, May 23, 2024, 1:22 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #15

You will like @minimaxir's hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Some other interesting ones; - Hacker News Rankings https://hnrankings.info - Stories removed from Front Page https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals - Title Edit Tracker https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app

Interesting links.

When I click on Ask link, I see the list of questions being asked by other members. But I can not post a question. What am I missing?

I checked your first link but nothing is mentioned about this.