In case you don’t visit the above link and discover the lists page[1] in the response, you may discover some other lists you didn’t know existed (like I didn’t).
> However, in maintaining its simplicity, many new features and behaviors added over the years on Hacker News are not fully documented other than the occasional comments from staff.
Ahahaha what?!? That is the opposite of "simplicity". Instead of exposing the functionality, it is hidden away but still active, and to know how it works you have to hunt through potentially thousands of comments, which might already have been obsoleted by later comments.
What's wrong with just having a help page? Or a sitemap? Sitemaps are pretty old school, they should be right up HN's alley, no?
/bestcomments is a mechanical ranking by upvote count, so 'best' is a misnomer.
/highlights is a manually curated list, designed for overlooked gems. If you or anyone notices an overlooked gem, from now or any time in the past, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll add it!
Sure they are. The word "curate" comes from "care". That's a subjective feeling! However, it's not so subjective that lots of other people can't share it, and that's what makes these things fun to share.
From my perspective, a 'gem' would be a post that has something rare and interesting about it, and perhaps also touching or beautiful.
That’s how I tell others about HN usually: it’s a news aggregator with comments for nerds, but the cool thing is, often someone chimes in and says "I was on the team who did this and here’s some more/different background info".
Tangentially related, out of curiosity: Are all or perhaps only specific comments limited to a maximum of 75 points, or is it simply a coincidence that mine have never seemed to get more upvotes beyond that score?
Not sure about a comprehensive list of differences, but, for one, /highlights page shows all comments there in a chronological order of when they were posted (while /bestcomments doesn't).
I still find it surprising that HN doesn't offer RSS feed(s). I consume mostly all my daily web content via RSS. Right now, I use a service hosted on github.io - it works well, but there's always this second-handedness about it.
> APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array ... In 1979, Iverson received the Turing Award for his work on APL.
> The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui, is an array programming language based primarily on APL (also by Iverson). To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set ... J is a very terse array programming language, and is most suited to mathematical and statistical programming, especially when performing operations on matrices ... Since March 2011, J is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
I'm sorry it looks like some creepy list of comments that dox the commenter. Even dang highlighted one of his own comment, where he doxes someone else who commented in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940228
Purposefully posting things about yourself isn't doxxing, nor is linking to a post of somebody posting personal information about themselves. They publicly posted it, they're fine with it being public.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249