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Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

7 points by Gooblebrai ↗ HN
I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom

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dmitrygr
Seeing the usual 30
imzadi
I see 30 and a more button, even on a different browser incognito
AnimalMuppet
I see 15 and no "more", even logged in.

Is it based on browser? I'm running Google Chrome.

Aboutplants
I see 15
kazinator
Likewise, and that seems to be because this submission is included, immediately prior to which it must have been 14.
lurn_mor
You have reached the end of the internet. That is a paywall in front of you. What do you do?
orbital-decay
Ride the shady web archiving engine that inexplicably seems to go in an out without a problem. Then download the rest of the internet.
pixl97
Me to my AI hardness: "Go commit a few felonies and get me internet Gold++"

Also, the site is loading really slow for me now.

kencausey
I don't regularly check Ask HN so I'm uncertain that more should be listed, although I would expect so. But assuming you haven't, the correct place to contact is hn@ycombinator.com which can be found at the contact link at the bottom of the page.
tonymet
same (well 15, but it's limited)
gj0
Looks like someone vibecoded and pushed without a review. Been observing too many bugs across X, Cursor etc
gchamonlive
Vibecoding on hn admin plane would be ironic but I think it's improbable
krapp
The mods have said they use LLMs to code HN now, and for some moderation tasks.
gchamonlive
Interesting, so a public post mortem would be enlightening to read
pluc
Please subscribe for 15 more
bigwheels
I noticed this today as well, showing 15 but it seems short and it used to be paged.
lurker919
Wow this is the first time I've seen a real visible bug on HN.
ThrowawayR2
If you want to see the uncurated slushpile, check /asknew instead of /ask. It's documented in the Lists link at the bottom of the page.
dang
(OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".)

The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.

This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.

I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...

Teever
I've thought about submitting a "What are you listening to" question to get conversation about music and podcasts going, would that be an acceptable question to ask?
areoform
Hey dang, I didn't know asknew existed and I've been using it for a while. I kept going to ask. I think it would be helpful if it was a tab on its own next to new on the top bar. I want to engage with other people's projects; I just didn't know where or how.
em-bee
or on the top of the /ask page put a description and a link to /asknew to invite people to vote for good questions
vismit2000
Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.
dang
Maybe we should let people customize the top bar.
sumitagar4
The pagination algorithm finally achieved peak optimization: fewer posts, less scrolling, more productivity.