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(OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".)

The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.

This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.

I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...

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Hey dang, I didn't know asknew existed and I've been using it for a while. I kept going to ask. I think it would be helpful if it was a tab on its own next to new on the top bar. I want to engage with other people's projects; I just didn't know where or how.

or on the top of the /ask page put a description and a link to /asknew to invite people to vote for good questions

Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.

Maybe we should let people customize the top bar.

I've thought about submitting a "What are you listening to" question to get conversation about music and podcasts going, would that be an acceptable question to ask?

Of course!

is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists? obviously there's the "lists" link at the bottom of the page but that is missing some, e.g. the above /ask (but /asknew is there?) and some others i've heard of but don't remember the link for e.g. a list of comments detected to be anti-ai

edit: just noticed /ask probably isn't there because it's in the navbar, lol. but still

> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?

What I wondered: Is there another list for e.g. my own comments? I would like to have a page with all my comments, so I could search in them. Is there already a way to instruct HN to provide this, or do I need to make my own crawler?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can use „by:“ in the search query to limit search to posts or comments of a user.

When they have a unique name, it doesn't seem to matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=1718627440

it's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1718627440

unless I'm misunderstanding what you're after.

> unless I'm misunderstanding what you're after.

Yes. My question is: do I need to write a crawler following next links or is there a way to have a single unpaginated list?

If you go to your profile there are links for your post submissions, your comments, favorites, etc.

I randomly discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories a few weeks ago

> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

read the second sentence of my comment. if you'd like an example of a list that exists but is not on that page (in fact the one i mentioned not being able to remember), see https://news.ycombinator.com/genai-pushback

> Not sure what the solution is

Is it a growing pattern or cyclical in some way? Does it need a solution or will it work itself out in time?

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