Hacker News Highlights

https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

by nickt • 3 years ago

256 44 3 years ago

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remram• 3 years ago

What are the other pages that don't show on the top navbar unless you're already there?

/upvoted /submitted /favorites /hidden are on your profile page, but clearly there's a few more.

agnokapathetic• 3 years ago

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

p-e-w• 3 years ago

However, in maintaining its simplicity, many new features and behaviors added over the years on Hacker News are not fully documented other than the occasional comments from staff.

Ahahaha what?!? That is the opposite of "simplicity". Instead of exposing the functionality, it is hidden away but still active, and to know how it works you have to hunt through potentially thousands of comments, which might already have been obsoleted by later comments.

What's wrong with just having a help page? Or a sitemap? Sitemaps are pretty old school, they should be right up HN's alley, no?

voynich• 3 years ago

You can find them at the "lists" link at the bottom of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

__ryan__• 3 years ago

Interestingly, “highlights” is not there.

billfor• 3 years ago

"Classic" is not there.

majou• 3 years ago

Huh, what's the difference between /{top,best}comments?

thiht• 3 years ago

/active is the real Hacker News front page IMO

olalonde• 3 years ago

How is that different from https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments?

filoleg• 3 years ago

Not sure about a comprehensive list of differences, but, for one, /highlights page shows all comments there in a chronological order of when they were posted (while /bestcomments doesn't).

dang4• 3 years ago

/bestcomments is a mechanical ranking by upvote count, so 'best' is a misnomer.

/highlights is a manually curated list, designed for overlooked gems. If you or anyone notices an overlooked gem, from now or any time in the past, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll add it!

andreygrehov• 3 years ago

Aren’t manual curators biased towards their beliefs? What makes a comment a “gem” from the perspective of a curator?

krono2• 3 years ago

Tangentially related, out of curiosity: Are all or perhaps only specific comments limited to a maximum of 75 points, or is it simply a coincidence that mine have never seemed to get more upvotes beyond that score?

lolinder• 3 years ago

dang explained the list here[0]. It looks like it's a curated list of comments, rather than algorithmic like the other pages.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249

jader201• 3 years ago

In case you don’t visit the above link and discover the lists page[1] in the response, you may discover some other lists you didn’t know existed (like I didn’t).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

thrdbndndn• 3 years ago

I know /lists, but it doesn't include /highlights for some reason.

mysterydip• 3 years ago

I was unaware, so thanks! TIL that a throwaway account has the 66th highest karma among commenters

bambax• 3 years ago

    asknew The latest Ask HN (i.e. text) posts
    shownew The latest Show HN posts

Could we have in addition to those:

    bestask     Highest rated Ask HN 
    bestshow    Highest rated Show HN

And of course "best" could simply mean: "all, ordered by descending number of points".

That would be pretty cool.

motohagiography• 3 years ago

There's some amazing, magical humanity in there.

ftxbro4• 3 years ago

I'm sorry it looks like some creepy list of comments that dox the commenter. Even dang highlighted one of his own comment, where he doxes someone else who commented in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940228

throwaway892238• 3 years ago

You keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means

ftxbro4• 3 years ago

It's a list of comments where people reveal personal information about themselves.

irrational• 3 years ago

What is APL? I searched for “APL database” and didn’t find anything that seemed related.

walterbell• 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array ... In 1979, Iverson received the Turing Award for his work on APL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui, is an array programming language based primarily on APL (also by Iverson). To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set ... J is a very terse array programming language, and is most suited to mathematical and statistical programming, especially when performing operations on matrices ... Since March 2011, J is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

Stratoscope• 3 years ago

Too much fun to see myself in this list, and especially because it links to a story where I explained that "fire an event" is a weed reference...

benatkin• 3 years ago

jrockway and clay_shirky stand out to me :)

penguin_booze• 3 years ago

I still find it surprising that HN doesn't offer RSS feed(s). I consume mostly all my daily web content via RSS. Right now, I use a service hosted on github.io - it works well, but there's always this second-handedness about it.

h4ch1• 3 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

This seems to exist.

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