Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest

For me, the better HN is https://hckrnews.com/

I like /active personally which will show controversial topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

I do visit pretty often along with https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

No so thankless: there are many interesting links that never make it to the front page and the only way to find them is browse the first two or three pages of New. It's self rewarding.

If you're wondering what those /* urls mean and what else is there: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

I’m grateful for those who do visit /newest because it’s a cesspit of spam and uninteresting links that, justifiably, never make their way to the home page.

/active, on the other hand, is the real insiders tip. It shows the most active submissions, irrespective of whether they’ve been flagged off the homepage by users who want to avoid “controversial” topics or by an algorithm trying to avoid the same.

You don’t want it to replace the homepage as the arguing will drive you mad over time but it’s worth checking in with to see what conversation is being hidden from you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

I really like https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=24 with the GET parameter for hours.

If we all rely on others to skim /newest, the whole curation system collapses. Maybe the homepage should surface a couple random fresh posts too?

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I asked Gemini to make me HN-reader that show only [flagged]-messages, because when somebody was triggered that much, it must be something interesting.

Found out that they have devious schema to keep those hidden from anonymous visitor. And if you do this on a registered account, they block such perverts right away, said Gemini.

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If you find a good post on "new" and it doesn't seem to get any traction, then you can e-mail the moderators here and they might put it in their "pool" or "invited" list (forgot which one).

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

There's also /classic, which only counts votes from user accounts created before a certain cutoff date.

The cutoff used to be early 2008, I believe, but that may have changed in the last ~17 years :)

I've noticed occasionally a new post will show up in my homepage, which I've interpreted as being a randomized injection of new stuff to see if it gets traction. If that's true (and this is all speculation on my part), it's not strictly necessary for anyone to visit /newest.

"most good posts" don't die in newest, otherwise HN wouldn't be functioning/popular. Almost all of the top-top posts (save a few dupes) are fresh, original content that's popular with readers and/or generating lots of discussion. C'mon now. If anything, use /newest to see the actual mire of low-quality submissions and keep them there.

If you want to see everything and pick and choose what's interesting use RSS to get everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Better HN?

Everytime i open /newest there's a lot of trash that hasn't been downvoted or flagged to oblivion yet.

Not sure it's that better.

fact is, this one made its way from /newest to "/".

And yet, indeed, it is up to us to weigh in for better content.

There are indeed many ways of consuming HN/news. Here are just few ways I've collected recently:

- https://hckrnews.com/

- https://hcker.news/

- https://hn.unlurker.com/

- https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/

- https://lessnews.dev/

- https://news.kagi.com/world/latest

- https://forty.news/

- https://news.ysimulator.run/news

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There is a link to this: just click on "new" in the banner bar, right next to "Hacker News".

By saying that it feed is better you are saying that the mechanisms which promote stories, and other mechanisms like moderation, make HackerNews worse.

I'm looking for a simple dark mode reader/frontend, but similar in the current HN style and adapted for mobile view (adjusted font size) for late night bed scrolling.

No apps however.

> 'Most good posts die in /newest, buried under low-quality submissions.'

If the system doesnt work why advocate for it? We are a technical people, dont we have a technical solution?

I kind of enjoy /newest. Yes, the it has more noise, but sometimes you can get random interesting things without filtered by that HN bias. I do like that bias overall, but sometimes fresh unfiltered air is nice thing to have.

I like the more curated homepage, it sorts out of a lot of the promotions for people seeking VC.