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Tell HN: There is a highlights page on HN
Just went onto /lists, and saw the new highlights link. It seems to be about interesting comments that is user curated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
- mdwalters 3y ago[dead]
- _HMCB_ 3y agoAwesome find
- dang 3y agoIt's been around for a while, I just got prompted to add it to /lists recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724. All: if you see a particularly great comment, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully add it. We don't want to be the only ones noticing these!
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
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- walterbell 3y agoAt some point, /meta may be useful to record comments and threads which lead to HN improvements. A parallel universe to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented.
- dang 3y agoI think I'm happier to have that be a third party list. I email Max corrections and additions from time to time.
- nuker 3y agoAny chance getting reply notifications into the roadmap?
- dewey 3y agoYou might be aware of it already and just looking for a native solution but https://www.hnreplies.com https://www.hnreplies.com works well for me for many years now.
- wodenokoto 3y agoIf I remember correctly it’s a decision not to have reply notifications. The thinking (as I understand it) is they want to discourage back and forth threads between 2 people.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI’d contrast to Tildes where I think reply notifications help keep people engaged in discussions and Mastodon where I think people use favorites to close off a discussion. Tildes is interesting to compare to HN because it is superficially similar but the balance between links and discussions is quite different. That is, I think “Ask HN” is pretty sad and mostly failed (look at how few get a single comment) but linkless discussions on Tildes are pretty lively.
- brudgers 3y agoI just looked at Tildes. I can see why people go there. It's not for me. Just like Twitter, just like Reddit, it would encourage me to type the sort of comments that I try not to write on topics I try not to engage in in ways I try to avoid. Your mileage varies of course and I am glad there is a place where you get what you need.
- PaulHoule 3y agoYou can filter unwanted topics out. I don't filter many out, but there are a few that I really need to hide to protect my equanimity. One thing I like on Tildes is that people talk about sports on Tildes but not HN and I'd say sports is a mostly harmless topic.
- throw0101a 3y agoHow are items added to these pages? If it's dynamic-y, is an RSS/Atom feed available that can be auto-updated?
- rsaarelm 3y agoLooks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84 https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84
- marojejian 3y agoHope they add this! looks like the one they have is different (and at a glance doesn't seem as good): https://hnrss.org/bestcomments https://hnrss.org/bestcomments
- meee 3y agoIf a link to /classic were on lists I would just start my HN journey there every day.
- dang 3y agoIs it so different? IIRC the main lesson of that page over the years has been that it isn't really.
- dredmorbius 3y agoYou can always bookmark that. I see "classic" as more of a check to see if HN is seeing substantial drift from what its early cohort's interests are. Largely ... it seems to jibe reasonably well with the main site. Another interesting variant is to hit Algolia with a blank search and a date-range set. What you'll get are top-voted comments for that period (past day, week, month, year, or custom interval). I occasionally use that to see if I've missed anything particularly good recently, or to filter what I see as excessive cruft. So, e.g., top votes past month: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...> "Top voted" need not mean "best" Because Reasons, but it's an interesting and different slice of the site.
- danielskogly 3y agoThis is my favorite thing on HN. I have a tab open with it that I “Snooze until next month” (in Firefox) and read whenever it pops up :)
- RexM 3y agoWhat extension do you use to snooze tabs in Firefox?
- danielskogly 3y agoI use this one by Mozilla themselves, but there might be better ones out there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/
- mkl 3y agoI haven't tried that one, but I use Auto Tab Discard (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...), which has way more users and a higher rating. It can't "snooze until next month" though.
- checker659 3y agoWould be nice if the mod / highligher added an annotation for why the comment is insightful and/or remarkable.
- pavlov 3y agoI like this page better when it’s not pre-chewed. It’s nice to read something without a specific expectation or context. Most of the highlighted comments fall under the heading “I was around when X happened” though. The list could almost be titled “first-hand-experiences”.
- Dungenesst 3y ago[dead]
- paulpauper 3y agoanother NH easter egg
- busymom0 3y agoThanks for bringing attention to this. I will add this endpoint to my hacker news app HACK. Are there any other endpoints people don't know about?
- tailspin2019 3y ago(Very) long time daily user of HACK here. It’s a great app, thanks for your hard work!
- sah2ed 3y agoI guess https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is at the footer of every HN page.
- Andugal 3y agoIs there a place where HN publishes some sort of changelog?
- msravi 3y agoI recall there used to be a way of getting a snapshot of the way the front-page looked, say, 2 hours ago. Can't find it now. Anyone knows? Edit: Found it at /front but looks like it's a snapshot on a per-day resolution, not hourly or arbitrary For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-23
- wingerlang 3y agoYou can see on a daily basis in the top menu under "past"
- dredmorbius 3y ago"past" in the top-of-page header, which has a granularity of 1 day. I've been looking at an archive of past front pages dating to 2007 to see trends, patterns, and statistics concerning front-page stories, since late May of this year. It's interesting, and resolves some common disputes and/or claims.
- dang 3y agoThat page has always been a daily amalgam. We've never had "x hours ago" snapshots. Probably the closest to that would be the Internet Archive's copies.
- fergie 3y agoI hesitate to admit this, since I have a 14 year old account- but this is the first I have ever heard of /lists. I can get to it by appending "/lists" to the url, but I can't see a "lists" link anywhere on the site- is it some kind of hidden page? If so- are there more?
- RichieAHB 3y agoNice to see Clifford Stoll currently topping the page. I bought The Cuckoo's Egg after reading enough people recommending it on HN and so to see the author referencing the main events in that book as the most recent highlight kinda brings things full circle!
- stavros 3y agoHaha, I was looking for myself on there, getting dejected that I never contributed anything of note, but then I found a comment about one of the silly things I made: https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok?feature=shared https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok?feature=shared I had forgotten about that. Gave me a laugh, so thanks for that.
- hyperfuturism 3y agoThis could probably change my experience on HN. In general too much noise in the comments, so a hand-picked filter like this is very useful.
- singularity2001 3y agoWhy am I completely missing the allure of these comments?
- gnatman 3y agoJust by looking at the first 5-6 comments 'highlighted' I can tell that they're representative of a type of post that many readers of this website value. It's usually some mix of firsthand experience "untold stories" and ultra-specific domain expertise. In other words, information relevant to the topic that's hard or impossible to find elsewhere.
- shuiling 3y ago[dead]
- typhonic 3y agoAs if I'm not already spending too much time reading HN.