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Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by no_more_death »

Really saves time.

I used a threshhold of 35 at first, then I upped it to 50. These days you probably want 75 or 100 if you really want to sift through the less important items.

Or you can just subscribe to daemonology's RSS: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss. This summarizes the top ten every day. These are most of the important articles; of course you will miss some important things.

On the other side of the scale, you should try http://news.ycombinator.com/newest every once in a while as well. The fact is, the HN point system ends up filtering a lot of things by whatever's popular or in sync with the groupthink at the moment. Newest can help you avoid this "filter."

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

#42

Post by martincmartin »

aeurielesn wrote: post #6
fredley wrote: post #2

Just out of interest, how did you discover this?

He knew about this. Check pg announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998376 , almost 2 years ago.

Bingo. I figured many people either would either have missed that post, or have joined in the last 2 years. Either way, it seems like something people didn't know about and are happy to hear about it.

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by sjs382 »

There are also independent RSS feeds that only post feeds over a certain threshold.

I wish there was a browser extension that only showed highly-ranked (or sufficiently new, maybe) comments, too. It would be useful on the comment threads I find most interesting, but probably be too much of a detriment on others to actually be implemented.

Wait... did I just advocate turning HN into Slashdot?

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

#44

Post by joeshaw »

sjs382 wrote: post #43

There are also independent RSS feeds that only post feeds over a certain threshold. I wish there was a browser extension that only showed highly-ranked (or sufficiently new, maybe) comments, too. It would be useful on the comment threads I find most interesting, but probably be too much of a detriment on others to actually be implemented. Wait... did I just advocate turning HN into Slashdot?

And also Twitter feeds, which along with Hacker News Daily (http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/) is the primary way I browse the site:

https://twitter.com/newsyc20 https://twitter.com/newsyc50 https://twitter.com/newsyc100 https://twitter.com/newsyc150

(I find the 100 point threshold to be the sweet spot.)

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by shrikant »

Arjuna wrote: post #37

Here are some fun points-related search queries: Comments with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=+&... Stories with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=+&#... Users with the highest karma: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=+&sor... "Ask HN:" stories with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/searc…

Some "official" lists are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

#46

Post by jamie_ca »

no_more_death wrote: post #41

Really saves time. I used a threshhold of 35 at first, then I upped it to 50. These days you probably want 75 or 100 if you really want to sift through the less important items. Or you can just subscribe to daemonology's RSS: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss . This summarizes the top ten every day. These are most of the important articles; of course you will miss some important things. On the other side…

I've been running at 75 for the past few months, saves me from wasting _too_ much time here instead of working ;)

I have noticed it's a bit quirky though - occasionally I'll have an article from a year or two ago show up on "my" front page.

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by joshuahedlund »

This is cool, and I will probably use it sometimes to help force myself to waste less time, but isn't there some risk of a 'tragedy of the commons' (maybe not the right game theory term, but one of those) where too many people want to see only high point submissions so fewer people are around to vote low point submissions into higher ones? Maybe even some adverse selection where now the people viewing lower point posts are the ones who care less about discovering high quality posts, thereby making it harder for those posts to get high points?

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by sjs382 »

joeshaw wrote: post #44
sjs382 wrote: post #43

There are also independent RSS feeds that only post feeds over a certain threshold. I wish there was a browser extension that only showed highly-ranked (or sufficiently new, maybe) comments, too. It would be useful on the comment threads I find most interesting, but probably be too much of a detriment on others to actually be implemented. Wait... did I just advocate turning HN into Slashdot?

And also Twitter feeds, which along with Hacker News Daily ( http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ ) is the primary way I browse the site: https://twitter.com/newsyc20 https://twitter.com/newsyc50 https://twitter.com/newsyc100 https://twitter.com/newsyc150 (I find the 100 point threshold to be the sweet spot.)

I actually subscribe to 100+, 20+ and the regular feeds. If I'm having a busy day (or skip a few days), then I'll just look at the 100+ and mark the rest as read.

Re: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

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Post by niels_olson »

could we also get under? Or a range? Instead of just new and top, (and now "over"), we could hang out in the 5-10 land and see what's just above "new". Other people might want to hang out in 15-30 land and see what's decent, but potentially getting untoward social effects.
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