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Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by dangoldin » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:07 PM UTC

zainny wrote: post #13

In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge. I have no idea why this and other sections ( https://news.ycombinator.com/lists ) aren't linked from the main page in a prominent visible manner - especially /best which is great for people like me who c…

Neat - I completely forgot about this. If anyone's interested in these different views on top of HN I created http://yahnr.com/ a while ago that just shows the top stories by vote from the past 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes.

I mostly did it as a way to generate a "pseudo-static" site that is entirely hosted on S3 with a job that just dumps JSON files to it every 15 mins.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by ccozan » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #27

Ecio78 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see, only few comments, but already 18334 points...

Notice how it's almost entirely headlines from large news sites posted evenly pretty much every single day. This isn't an accusation as such but I'd suspect it's (semi)-automated or it's someone who is amazingly diligent and consistent in posting interesting news.

o.O so many points! It doesn't look like a bot, but it has certainly a browser extension that posts to HN with a click.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

revenz wrote: post #19

also this https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

What is classic exactly, how does it differ? At a first glance it seems to prioritize age over points more than the current version.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by xauronx » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:17 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #26

zainny wrote: post #13

In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge. I have no idea why this and other sections ( https://news.ycombinator.com/lists ) aren't linked from the main page in a prominent visible manner - especially /best which is great for people like me who c…

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders is another fun page that used to be on the header a couple of years ago. Also, I have a simple site that tries to take a snapshot of the HN front page every hour so that I can catch up if I'm away for a few days: http://hackerslide.com/

Oh cool! I'm on HN pretty constantly and a quick slide showed me that I'm not on quite as always as I thought.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by estel » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

Arjuna wrote: post #28

The "Best" link is for recent (for some value of "recent"), top-rated submissions. For all-time, top-rated submissions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=+&sort... I wrote a previous post with some other "points-related" queries here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659939

Does HN Search only have content from the last (time period)?There's definitely some stuff that seems to be missing.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by __xtrimsky » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

Oh nice, I was using rss of other people that did this themselfs, but know I might use this!

EDIT: Nevermind, this doesn't have rss!

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by jwmoz » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

zainny wrote: post #13

In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge. I have no idea why this and other sections ( https://news.ycombinator.com/lists ) aren't linked from the main page in a prominent visible manner - especially /best which is great for people like me who c…

Agree. I had no idea.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by samatman » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #33

revenz wrote: post #19

also this https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

What is classic exactly, how does it differ? At a first glance it seems to prioritize age over points more than the current version.

Classic is pg's solution to the "Endless September" problem.

Classic hn only counts front-page upvotes from users who have been around for awhile. I don't know what awhile is. Longer than me.

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by raldi » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

clone1018 wrote: post #15

etherealG wrote: post #14

how does best differ from the homepage? not sure i get it.

Sorting based on points.

As opposed to...?

Re: Hacker News: Best

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Post by namenotrequired » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 2:59 PM UTC

etherealG wrote: post #14

how does best differ from the homepage? not sure i get it.

The home page has a complicated algorithm that seems to take many variables into account to determine the 'hottest' / 'best new' stories (including measures to punish cheating etc.).

As far as I can see the 'best' page seems to simply take all articles submitted in the past ~3 days or so, sort them according to the number of points, and show the top 30 in that order.

Of course, the 'best' page works only thanks to the upvotes articles get (mainly) on the home page.