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I went on vacation...wheres the front page HN stuff?

11 pointsoziumjinx13 comments

Went abroad for two weeks. Now that Im back I want to see all the good HN articles i missed over the last couple weeks. Any idea how?

Can I view articles that received over x points?

View on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=250

is there a similar way to filter comments within an article ?

http://hnrecap.com

Only considers entries that made it to the front page and ranks them according to their position every 2 minutes.

Archiving since August 4, 2010.

How do you compute the points for the items?

I kept it simple: Reverse order = Number of points i.e. #3 on front page = 28 pts etc.

Points are accrued every time a snapshot of the front page is taken.

There is a flaw with this system in that outside of peak hours, some less important item might hang around the front page a little longer and earn a too many points but I feel that it still works well enough to catch up with HN Content.

The actual point values seem wildly meaningless, perhaps you shouldn't even display them.

For a minute there, I thought you were summing the article points and the total points of all comments, which would be an interesting ranking as well.

Respectfully, I disagree. The points are clearly correlated with how high the item gets, and how long it stays on the front page. As such, I think the ranking is of value. It also has the merit of being simple to compute, and easy to explain.

Elegant.

Hah. Neat. Thanks for the reply. I've book-marked your page. Not sure I'll use it, but it's worth keeping.

Ah - how do items ever lose their points?

Ah! I see! They get throw away and restarted every day.

Try http://hckrnews.com/

Looks like what Im looking for. Thanks

In addition to the link by PG, consider:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

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