I was about to comment with the same observation after looking at your parent's link. Has the hacker news audience really grown that much in the last 2 weeks?
I am wondering what value people associate with this functionality. One reason that I love HN is the long tail, e.g. low point, submissions. In the asymptotic limit of high point values (perhaps >500 or so) this is equivalent to reading cnn.com.
The issue for me is purely one of volume. As much as I tend to like many of the "long tail" submissions on HN, even with the filtered 10+ feed I ended up getting over 70 items in the last 24 hours period, which makes for quite a bit of reading already. Any more and I'd be completely overwhelmed (I'll probably have to adjust the filter criteria in the future as HN inevitably becomes more popular).
One reason I use http://hckrnews.com as my HN page. After some time away it's a nice way of quickly filtering on just the main stories I might have missed.
After using hckr news for so long I can't go back to the regular HN page. I find the styling and filtering to be much more effective for consuming HN's content.
I'd quite like an 'under' page. Most of the stuff I seem to like here the best isn't the pile-on 'big news' type stuff but geeky articles that rarely seem to get over 100 (for example, the wool or Node/ARM articles on the front page right now are highly unlikely to get over 100). Pretty easy to rig up with the API I'm guessing though. #neverhappy lol :-)
16 comments
[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 45.9 ms ] threadThe issue for me is purely one of volume. As much as I tend to like many of the "long tail" submissions on HN, even with the filtered 10+ feed I ended up getting over 70 items in the last 24 hours period, which makes for quite a bit of reading already. Any more and I'd be completely overwhelmed (I'll probably have to adjust the filter criteria in the future as HN inevitably becomes more popular).
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998376