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 check in every few days.
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/
I mostly did it as a way to generate a "pseudo-static" site that is entirely hosted on S3 with a job that just dumps JSON files to it every 15 mins.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=+&sort...
I wrote a previous post with some other "points-related" queries here:
Classic hn only counts front-page upvotes from users who have been around for awhile. I don't know what awhile is. Longer than me.
As far as I can see the 'best' page seems to simply take all articles submitted in the past ~3 days or so, sort them according to the number of points, and show the top 30 in that order.
Of course, the 'best' page works only thanks to the upvotes articles get (mainly) on the home page.
EDIT: Nevermind, this doesn't have rss!