Hacker News: Best (opens in new tab)

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders is another fun page that used to be on the header a couple of years ago.

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 used to go to http://hckrnews.com to get a similar list, but this seems to use a different algorithm.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=256

Neat - I completely forgot about this. If anyone's interested in these different views on top of HN I created http://yahnr.com/ a while ago that just shows the top stories by vote from the past 24 hours, updated every 15 minutes.

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.

Thanks for pointing this out. I never knew about Best and Lists. :)

It's the first link in the footer.

Thank you. I've never heard of that either

Agree. I had no idea.

Does HN Search only have content from the last (time period)?There's definitely some stuff that seems to be missing.

This website has made hn like 10 times more addictive for me.

and https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

What is classic exactly, how does it differ? At a first glance it seems to prioritize age over points more than the current version.

Not enough comments yet.

I never knew about "best" or "lists". Awesome. Thanks.

The home page has a complicated algorithm that seems to take many variables into account to determine the 'hottest' / 'best new' stories (including measures to punish cheating etc.).

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.

Time degrades points more slowly on /best, so it will usually show the top stories from the past 3(ish) days rather than the past 12-24 hours. Perfect for when you've been away for a few days and looking to invest some time in reading.

Sorting based on points.