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…
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#42Another noteworthy hacker news digest: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
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#43In 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…
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256
How did you find that? I've been using HN for a while, and lurking even longer, but never stumbled across that.
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I believe you, but I don't know how anyone could miss the "best" page. It's one of only six links across the top banner of the HN site. Often it's more fun to peruse "new", though. https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
For me, there is no 'best' or 'list' link at the top of the page. Only if I go directly to the URLs for best or list, do those links get added to the nav bar. Normally the nav bar is just: > Hacker News new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit
Oops. I didn't realize this was added by the Hacker News Enhancement Suite Chrome Extension I've been using. Sorry for that accusation.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
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#45In 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/
Nice idea.
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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.
They're on Reddit too, same general technique and username.
I'm leaning toward the 'amazingly diligent and consistent' theory myself. After all I have like no submissions and tons of comments, so who am I to judge? ;)
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#47In 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…
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256
Now, if we only had this comments within threads...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There's the HN bookmarklet.
Anyone considering similar extensions could make a visible guide for 80 characters, so submitters don't have to count chars.
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#50how does best differ from the homepage? not sure i get it.
Time degrades points more slowly on /best, so it will usually show the top stories from the past 3(ish) days rather than the past 12-24 hours. Perfect for when you've been away for a few days and looking to invest some time in reading.