For those unfamiliar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ... It's basically a bunch of posts that 'dang and 'tomhow (others too? idk) think are underrated, so it tends to be potent hacker-catnip stuff.

curtisblaine

4 months ago

3 replies

So "passion score" just finds long posts that were not interacted with? I'm not sure it's a proxy for quality.

omoikane

4 months ago

I wonder if the reason why those posts were overlooked was because people couldn't quickly decide whether they want to spend more time reading more text. Put it a different way, the number of comments is a function of text length (among other things), and there might be a particular text length threshold that would maximize number of comments.

If a lot of people use this tool and comment on previously overlooked posts, the number of comments will even out (because the passion score will drop), and maybe we will get better variety of posts.

cglong

4 months ago

LLMs are also notoriously verbose. Don't know if that's the case here, but not sure how "Passion" protects against that

hyperific

4 months ago

It does seem like the "passion score" is a rule-of-thumb estimate at best. A lengthy post could just be someone rambling, and a short post could be from a timid dev sharing their project on HN for the first time.

I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.

ChrisArchitect

4 months ago

1 reply

Text length? So this is focused on Show HN:'s and Asks? That's cool to find missed projects people have submitted, but considering a majority of posts interesting and not are just links, seems like a lot of 'gems' are gonna be missed. Look to the Pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool) for that I suppose.

LorenDB

4 months ago

Yeah, I think a true hidden gems finder might have to use an LLM that has been trained on what does or doesn't succeed here to properly categorize the results.

coffeecoders

4 months ago

1 reply

Nice!

What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints:

https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

mtmail

4 months ago

And https://news.ycombinator.com/invited ("Overlooked links, invited to repost") maybe. The lists are on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (link in the footer of every HN page)

nomsters

4 months ago

I tried it and it's just a list of posts about AI

sunrunner

4 months ago

I really like this idea. Every so often I’ll come across a weeks, months or years old thread that I’d like to have been able to participate in at the time or that has interesting or useful information.

I guess you haven’t figured out the time travel issue yet, but being able to find quality older threads is definitely something I like.

Perhaps a filter option to help people find specific kinds of topic could be added? :)

reality_inspctr

4 months ago

very cool

lofaszvanitt

4 months ago

Just watch new. Most of the time only the bullshit articled gets upvoted and you miss the nifty ones if checking the frontpage only.

jovial_cavalier

4 months ago

Looks like you need to sanitize the titles. There's a post on the 8th page now that has an <input> tag that's getting rendered and is clickable.

tonymet

4 months ago

can you add a "find controversial comments" feature? controversial posts would be nice, but I don't think downvoting posts is available

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