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Hacker News Frontpage with a 150 point threshold

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37 pointstomswartz0715 comments

One reason I use http://hckrnews.com as my HN page. After some time away it's a nice way of quickly filtering on just the main stories I might have missed.

After using hckr news for so long I can't go back to the regular HN page. I find the styling and filtering to be much more effective for consuming HN's content.

I'd quite like an 'under' page. Most of the stuff I seem to like here the best isn't the pile-on 'big news' type stuff but geeky articles that rarely seem to get over 100 (for example, the wool or Node/ARM articles on the front page right now are highly unlikely to get over 100). Pretty easy to rig up with the API I'm guessing though. #neverhappy lol :-)

I am wondering what value people associate with this functionality. One reason that I love HN is the long tail, e.g. low point, submissions. In the asymptotic limit of high point values (perhaps >500 or so) this is equivalent to reading cnn.com.

I use http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E10 to keep an RSS feed of HN submissions with score > 10.

The issue for me is purely one of volume. As much as I tend to like many of the "long tail" submissions on HN, even with the filtered 10+ feed I ended up getting over 70 items in the last 24 hours period, which makes for quite a bit of reading already. Any more and I'd be completely overwhelmed (I'll probably have to adjust the filter criteria in the future as HN inevitably becomes more popular).

Looks like it works with any number, like 900: https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=900 . So cool!

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=9000 :( oh...

Even with "points=700" I get just 9 results, and 8 are from the last 10 days. That's a bit weird. https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=700

I was about to comment with the same observation after looking at your parent's link. Has the hacker news audience really grown that much in the last 2 weeks?

Funny enough, I find this link on the front page with a 150 point threshold.[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998376

Can we get this linked on the lists page, please?

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Not sure this is better than https://news.ycombinator.com/best

Since I've discovered this I've always used over?points=5 as my homepage, its a good churn rate for the stories. Find your number.

It would be interesting to know the ratio of up-votes to click-through-votes.

Can I get a range? Like, more than 5, less than 80?

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