Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)

I managed to hit rate limiting on the site as I tried to retrieve my full list of favorites. I appear to have ~2000 submissions favorited for "future reading".

Somehow I doubt I'll make my way through the entire list.

Yeah, zero favorites, joined in Feb 2007.

Well this explains 90 faves putting a topic at nr 1.

I typically favorite ~30 articles a week. I favorite more often than I upvote.

I currently have 5,490 [1] favorited articles.

I tell myself I'm training an interest classifier on this data...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183

I use upvotes exclusively, and I assume it's the typical user behavior: Algolia HN search lists posts sorted by upvotes, and the most popular post has 6k+ upvotes, whereas the most favorites had (3 years ago) 90 faves.

https://hn.algolia.com/

Yeah typically I just dump things in the “reading list” on phone, which I eventually exfiltrate and clear every year or so on my phone, or add it to a list via the onetab extension on desktop.

Most of this is just “emotional support bookmarks” because I’m a pathological data hoarder that apparently needs to catalog and sort the entirety of human knowledge. Saving a list of links tricks my brain into releasing this intrusive anxiety and keeps me from engaging in this odd sort of compulsion.

But out of a thousand or two links a year, there are in fact a few dozen times I reach back to reference or use something I found.

Haven’t learned physic though. So far unit conversion, geometry and algebra have been all I’ve needed in my line of work in regards to equation solving, as I did agricultural plot trials for a bit.

For some 10+ years I did not use favorites (or was even aware that it existed). Delicious then pinboard seemed enough.

With pinboard often being sluggish these days, I've been using HN favorites more and more.

Like star on Github I use favorite on HN as bookmarks.

I bookmark things like this all the time, and my bookmark list is effectively a black hole.

I managed to get through two separate “learn something about complicated topic in one weekend” this year, so I’ll call that a W.

Somewhat ironically his https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook is 404

I do this too and maybe make it through ~70% of what I've upvoted.