For those unfamiliar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ... It's basically a bunch of posts that 'dang and 'tomhow (others too? idk) think are underrated, so it tends to be potent hacker-catnip stuff.
nomsters 5 hours ago [-]
I tried it and it's just a list of posts about AI
coffeecoders 4 hours ago [-]
Nice!
What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints:
I really like this idea. Every so often I’ll come across a weeks, months or years old thread that I’d like to have been able to participate in at the time or that has interesting or useful information.
I guess you haven’t figured out the time travel issue yet, but being able to find quality older threads is definitely something I like.
Perhaps a filter option to help people find specific kinds of topic could be added? :)
janmarsal 6 hours ago [-]
Cool, found this gem with it.
pj4533 6 hours ago [-]
Boom!
janmarsal 6 hours ago [-]
Maybe add a search/filter to the results. I had to browse through 4 whole pages to make sure your post is actually there!
curtisblaine 6 hours ago [-]
So "passion score" just finds long posts that were not interacted with? I'm not sure it's a proxy for quality.
omoikane 5 hours ago [-]
I wonder if the reason why those posts were overlooked was because people couldn't quickly decide whether they want to spend more time reading more text. Put it a different way, the number of comments is a function of text length (among other things), and there might be a particular text length threshold that would maximize number of comments.
If a lot of people use this tool and comment on previously overlooked posts, the number of comments will even out (because the passion score will drop), and maybe we will get better variety of posts.
hyperific 5 hours ago [-]
It does seem like the "passion score" is a rule-of-thumb estimate at best. A lengthy post could just be someone rambling, and a short post could be from a timid dev sharing their project on HN for the first time.
I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.
ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago [-]
Text length? So this is focused on Show HN:'s and Asks? That's cool to find missed projects people have submitted, but considering a majority of posts interesting and not are just links, seems like a lot of 'gems' are gonna be missed. Look to the Pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool) for that I suppose.
LorenDB 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah, I think a true hidden gems finder might have to use an LLM that has been trained on what does or doesn't succeed here to properly categorize the results.
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jovial_cavalier 4 hours ago [-]
Looks like you need to sanitize the titles. There's a post on the 8th page now that has an <input> tag that's getting rendered and is clickable.
tonymet 4 hours ago [-]
can you add a "find controversial comments" feature? controversial posts would be nice, but I don't think downvoting posts is available
What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints:
https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
https://news.ycombinator.com/best
https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/active
https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
I guess you haven’t figured out the time travel issue yet, but being able to find quality older threads is definitely something I like.
Perhaps a filter option to help people find specific kinds of topic could be added? :)
If a lot of people use this tool and comment on previously overlooked posts, the number of comments will even out (because the passion score will drop), and maybe we will get better variety of posts.
I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.