Hmm. Reverse-engineering this page with BigQuery is surfacing a lot more results than the page itself (for 2019 atleast).<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1he6ca0BBYbj2ZEOEpu8L7Rqab8XLJoqBhkXYdSDVreE/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1he6ca0BBYbj2ZEOEpu8L...</a><p><pre><code> #standardSQL
SELECT id, title, url, score
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE timestamp > '2019-01-01'
AND REGEXP_CONTAINS(url, '.pdf|arxiv.org')
ORDER BY score desc</code></pre>
One of the huge issue on HN is lack of good algorithms for ranking. Currently all posts suffer from insufficient initial exposure to receive enough votes and thus false negatives are extremely high on HN. Just go to new page right now, take a look at most recent posting and you will find that <i>majority</i> of good genuine posts would never make it beyond their initial single upvote. Very small subset gets re-posted few times and only randomly some will get attention. Unfortunately papers are probably the biggest victim so you could have as well have collected all the links, did kind-of-random sort and you might still get fairly decent results. The bottom line is that never rely on HN's flawed ranking. Use that as weak signal, combine with Reddit, citations, tweet counts etc if you want to work around vast sea of false negatives that HN currently is.
We did one for Polar at the end of 2018:<p><a href="https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackernews.html" rel="nofollow">https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackerne...</a><p>If you want an awesome PDF reader to read these you should check out Polar :)<p>Yes. There's a Linux version! ;)<p><a href="https://getpolarized.io/" rel="nofollow">https://getpolarized.io/</a>
Could you add links to the relevant threads on HN to this listing e.g. by linking the HN score there? This would give access to both the PDF for those who just want to read the thing as well as to the discussion for those who wonder what made it reach such dazzling heights on HN.
I put together something similar but for articles people are linking to on Arxiv here:<p><a href="https://hntrending.com/links/all/arxiv/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://hntrending.com/links/all/arxiv/index.html</a>
A link at the top for 2019 would be helpful, maybe change text color for year being displayed? When navigating years returning to 2019 isn't intuitive.