Give some new links a chance

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

by samuell • 2 years ago

71 23 2 years ago

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samuell• 2 years ago

I would like to ask the HN community to consider visiting the "new" page on HN say at least daily, to give interesting new links a more fair chance of being noticed.

sillysaurusx3• 2 years ago

There’s already a formal system for this, called newreview. I don’t know whether they’re still taking applicants but you can email and ask if interested.

It’s tedious work. But it probably appeals to a certain personality type. You basically read each new post and mark your opinion of it.

It had to be formalized for exactly the reason you point out here: if it was left to random chance, the most interesting stories would (and did) fall through unnoticed. There’s a lot of interesting work that goes on behind the scenes to counteract such problems.

dredmorbius4• 2 years ago

Yours is the only result for a sting-literal search of that term on HN. Any details or previous discussion of this?

dredmorbius4• 2 years ago

That's how I turned up this submission, FWIW.

serial_dev• 2 years ago

Why do you think people don't already do that? In the end, all content in the top page started as a submission with zero upvotes.

I like the links on the new page and check out the new section from time to time, but in the end, I'm here for the discussion, seeing what other people think, and learning from the comments, so for me the new page isn't good as there is basically no comments there, no matter how great the links are on the new page.

yard2010• 2 years ago

Sometimes I don't even read the article, just open the comments and see what people have to say

ikari_pl• 2 years ago

and that's the worst of HN

often the author would prefer this discussion to be in THEIR comment section for once

fragmede• 2 years ago

Sometimes?

verticalscaler• 2 years ago

Sometimes I don't even read the comments and go straight to saying something.

tiku2• 2 years ago

I didn't do that.

rashidae• 2 years ago

The long tail phenomenon vs the power law distribution, in HN.

di-sukharev• 2 years ago

just tried to add a twitter link to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688913 and it was marked by [dead] on the other hand HN is an amazing community and if blocking links is what it takes—block it, but keep it awesome <3

tiku2• 2 years ago

Hm, perhaps there should be a dual column approach to hacker news, upcoming links and populair links.

nubinetwork• 2 years ago

New is full of spam and things we've already seen 6 times in the past week.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

Tell HN:

SAI_Peregrinus• 2 years ago

I like the hckrnews.com interface. Just chronological, with the newest at the top, but with comment counts and an indicator for which are new since your last visit.

Give some new links a chance

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