hacker-news-undocumented

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. (by minimaxir)

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  • Speeding up Docker Builds With eatmydata
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    Post with text insted of an URL get a penalty, so it's more difficult that they reach the front page (unofficial faq with more details https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... )

    My suggestion is to repost the link in a new submission (URL only, empty text), and add your explanation as as a comment.

  • Clarity on how posts are hidden or marked as dead
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
    > it's hard to engage without understanding the rules.

    On the other hand, if you fully understand them it’s easier for spammers to circumvent them and changes would have to be done way slower (because they’d have to be documented every time).

    You’ll sometimes find posts by dang explaining various policies, and there are some sources which try to document the undocumented:

    https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

    It is my understanding some websites (like dev.to) are automatically killed due to a prevalence of low quality posts. But users with showed enabled can still see those and vouch for them, which brings them back alive. Posts may also be flagged by users for a variety of reasons such as the subject having been posted and discussed multiple times in the last few days, essentially making the new post a duplicate.

  • Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
    Hacker News is extremely strongly manipulated. What users see as popularity order is actually the order edited to the moderators' liking.

    https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#behavi...

  • YC's Latest Request for Startups
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod

    Are there more?

    [0]https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

    [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

    [?]https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

  • Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
    >30 karma, same as flagging: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
  • Hacker News Second-Chance Pool
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
    More things in the unofficial feature list maintained by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
  • A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    Unfortunately it still doesn't mention "rate limited" accounts[0], which is extremely confusing when it happens to you. It's happened to me on this account, I can't comment more than 5 times per some arbitrary period - I'm guessing 24 hour UTC.

    No explanation or information is given - you don't even know until HN seems broken and you go searching. dang mentioned that's something they'd like to impove, but given the slow movement of HN features, I doubt it will.

    Note that none of this is meant as a slight on dang - I respect the work he does and really like the site, but it doesn't make it less frustrating. The result will be me rolling a new account (against site guidelines), as I have no other privacy preserving way of handling the issue.

    0. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

  • Teaching vi to secretaries brought LLMs to humanity
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    Post with an URL in the text are penalized and it is harder for them to reach the front page. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
  • Game-icons.net: Free icons for your games
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
    Not me, because I can't yet, but I can shed some light.

    That comment brings nothing to the table. An upvote would have given the same meaning. This is not reddit, and some of us would prefer it to remain different. Low effort comments tend to be downvoted, and interesting ones upvoted.

    So uplift your comments, say why you are thankful, what will be your use case, where you wouldn't use the OPs icons, ... give some information, not just noise.

    Here [0] is some more information about downvotes.

    [0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

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