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Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#992There should be a cap on the maximum number of points that can be earned per submission. Karma scoring will never be perfect, but the current reward for being the first to submit a popular story is excessive. Being the first to click submit on an obviously popular story can earn more points in a day than a patient user who spends years writing thoughtful expert answers in low-traffic threads.
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#993Comments from people asking for or offering mirrors of inaccessible articles are very frequent. Old articles disappear from the web, leaving discussions that lack context. HN should offer a link to a cached version in the header of the item page.
While it would be easiest to use an external service and just add the link, I think HN should consider creating its own archive of all submitted articles. The articles, links, commentary, and voting data could one day be a great corpus for future scholars (and current-day CS researchers).
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#994Merge duplicate submissions and their votes for URL that are "the same", and display only one submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903800
Blogspot is a common problem for example, trailing slash, etc.
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#995I'd love to follow the news in my RSS feed reader. But the 30+ per hour makes it impossible. I'd love a Top News RSS feed with 30-40 items per day. Filtering can be vote count, throttling, etc.
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#996The instapaper action disappeared again. Will it be added again eventually?
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#997Is this still looked at?
It would be cool if resubmitted stories had links to the previous versions – it's always nice to see the old comments, as well.
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#998Oldies - Music Time Radio (http://www.musictimeradio.com/oldies/) refers to the music from the 1950’s to early 1970’s.It’s a mixed music genre consisting of R&B, pop and rock music. It also refers to the radio format that specifically broadcast this particular genre.
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#1000"Unknown or expired link." is still a problem for new submissions (not comments).
I've spent under 5 minutes editing text only to get it upon clicking on "Submit"