dang
9 hours ago
(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...
areoform
7 hours ago
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.
dang
4 hours ago
Maybe we should let people customize the top bar.
vismit2000
5 hours ago
Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.
em-bee
6 hours ago
or on the top of the /ask page put a description and a link to /asknew to invite people to vote for good questions
peesem
9 hours ago
is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists? obviously there's the "lists" link at the bottom of the page but that is missing some, e.g. the above /ask (but /asknew is there?) and some others i've heard of but don't remember the link for e.g. a list of comments detected to be anti-ai
edit: just noticed /ask probably isn't there because it's in the navbar, lol. but still
1718627440
8 hours ago
> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?
What I wondered: Is there another list for e.g. my own comments? I would like to have a page with all my comments, so I could search in them. Is there already a way to instruct HN to provide this, or do I need to make my own crawler?
mh-
8 hours ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=1718627440
it's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1718627440
unless I'm misunderstanding what you're after.
Cider9986
8 hours ago
_Microft
4 hours ago
You can use „by:“ in the search query to limit search to posts or comments of a user.
esseph
7 hours ago
If you go to your profile there are links for your post submissions, your comments, favorites, etc.
stackghost
7 hours ago
> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?
owlninja
7 hours ago
I randomly discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories a few weeks ago
Teever
9 hours ago
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?
dang
4 hours ago
Of course!
verdverm
9 hours ago
> Not sure what the solution is
Is it a growing pattern or cyclical in some way? Does it need a solution or will it work itself out in time?