check the source for more goodies, but keep in mind that the performance impact of some of these may not be all that nice, which may be why they are not linked from the menu bar.
By looking over the "best" stories and "best comments", I find it interesting to note that very few of these are anywhere near what I'd consider to be the "best" of Hacker News.
Of course, we shouldn't take high karma to mean "good" any more than we take "popular" to mean good in social contexts, but I think it's telling that pg, amongst most commenters here still conflate the two, and while I'm sure most people here, when pressed, would say that they know this isn't really the best of HN, we see people optimize for high karma all the time, often at the expense of actual good content.
It's unfortunate that we're using a rating system that encourages this behavior.
I wonder if the comments follows a Power Law (80/20 rule), or if there is a linear increase from 0 to about 100 karma points. Is there any way we could get the data and graph that?
I saw http://news.ycombinator.com/x in my referer logs, what is this for? When I clicked on it, it said: Unknown or expired link, like if you leave the add comment window open too long.
It looks like it is only sorting the last week's stories by karma, not every story in HN history. Which begs the question: is there a way to see every story by karma?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/active
check the source for more goodies, but keep in mind that the performance impact of some of these may not be all that nice, which may be why they are not linked from the menu bar.