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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

> Some HN users post a lot of content, and post several links in a row, which will push away your post if they publish just after you

> You get a 30 min time window at busy hours (and 1h time window at non busy hours) between the time a new link is posted, and the link disappear from the 1st page of new links

Should /newest list the last-N-hours of new stories, instead of the 30 newest stories?

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I think one thing that could be done, is to offer 3-4 /newest possibles lists, for example by having a select at the top of the /newest page, possible options of the select could be:

- all new links (default)

- links from not frequent domains (less than 2 times this domain in the last 2 days)

- links from not frequent posters (less than 2 posts in the last 2 days)

- 1 link max per user

I wish /newest had a “hide all stories on this page from /newest” button, so that it always showed me new content and didn’t make me try to remember if I’d seen this page 4 before as page 2 or something. Then the heuristics wouldn’t be necessary since it would just show me anything I hadn’t hidden.

https://hckrnews.com/ has HN stories in reverse-chronological order, and shows where your last visit's newest story was (if you keep the cookie, of course). Sounds like exactly what you're looking for.

Not quite, but it’s certainly one of the heuristics I would expect to see someone implement. It isn’t a good fit for my use case though.

I don't think so, because very few people would scroll down further than before. And for those it only save one or two clicks on "More".

I think /lists/ should have something like OP's idea, especially if you want people to be reading new to find good articles that deserve a second chance.

A list of the last N hours of stories would be good, but a bit overwhelming.

Or perhaps, instead of having the 30 absolute newest articles, you could have 30 articles, randomly selected from those submitted in the last hour. That way your chance at success isn't biased so incredibly heavily on how you do in the first 5 minutes. (And also, might make it harder to get brigades set up, since the list is randomly generated.)

Interesting idea! Will think about that.

It might have the effect that people submit more at once, because the random selection will probably only return one or two anyway. So you don't need space them out manually anymore.

I don't think enough users look at /lists for that to have much influence. I should check the numbers though.

There should be options in the user panel to customize that when logged in.

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