Algolia's "Last 24h" view is often a nice alternative to the HN front page. It's more stable and it's also a good way to find articles/discussions that drew a lot of attention and then got flagged.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page... (it's not working at the moment for some reason)

The "Past Week" view is still working: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...