The Leaderboard should exclude points from url submissions (does it do this already?).
Only upvotes on comments and non-url submissions should count.
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#352When a user flags a post, please immediately hide the story from them. This will help lower their blood pressure. They can see it again by turning on ShowDead.
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#353rss feed for the "best" section would be nice.
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#354Maybe you might want to add a bit to the duplicate detection algorithm to remove the "www." before checking if it is a dupe. I only say this because an article was submitted by two different people with exactly the same title. The only thing that differs is the "www." prefix on the url.
The two stories:
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#355Possible way to catch dupes on user entry:
When a user begins submitting a URI we recognize as similar to one already entered, automatically ask "This might be a dupe. Sure to commit?" and list the similar entries we already know of.
Similar to the "this username is already taken" autocomplete box on many sign-up forms.
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#356I get so engrossed in this site and it is turning out to be a major time waster. There are a lot of interesting articles but I really need to more productive and reading HN isn't helping with that.
Perhaps a solution.
I would like to have the option of reading the highest rated article of the day. Just one article on the page. The 'active' page has a lot of articles. I just want one article. Period.
What do you think about that idea?
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#357The duplicate detector works well, but it would work even better if its string-matching were slightly less exact, so that printer-friendly URLs submitted after canonical URLs would be caught, and if more of the variants of Economist magazine URLs were caught as duplicates.
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#358A hide option, to remove links from the frontpage.
Has been suggested a few time before, but not for a while.
With hiding users get to see more new content on each refresh, and get to ignore their pet annoyances (for me Twitter, Gladwell, the latest tech-net drama). A much nicer user experience all round. Works well on Reddit.
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#359Please consider adding item excerpts/descriptions to your Hacker News feed. I love the feed and am subscribed to it, but without excerpts or descriptions for items it is not as easy to skim.
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#360Not sure "[deleted]" posts are correctly indented from their parent. Also, the lack of space above them means they don't stand out from their parent. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624964 is an example. It's not immediately obvious from indentation or spacing that swolchok's two posts aren't a reply to himself.