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Ask HN: A way to view the top rated posts/comments of all time?

2 points by chromium ↗ HN
I just thought that this would be a really useful feature. Or, is there a hidden way to do this already via hnsearch.com, for example?

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ColinWright
Not necessarily of all time, but at the bottom of nearly every page is "Lists":

http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

That gives you:

    leaders         Users with most karma.
    best            Highest voted recent links.
    active          Most active current discussions.
    bestcomments    Highest voted recent comments.
    noobstories     Submissions from new accounts.
    noobcomments    Comments from new accounts.
You can ask for items with more than a certain number of points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=400

You'll probably find that still only pulls things that are currently in cache.

chromium
I've seen lists... but unfortunately those only have "recent" posts.
ColinWright
To the best of my knowledge that's the best you can do. My understanding from snippets I've picked up here and there is that older items are on disk and not searched for these sorts of questions. To do so would be a significant increase on load on the server, I'd guess, especially if it became popular.