Original story[1] by jsrfded (also creator of site) which didn't get enough traction.<p>I think it's particularly useful nowadays considering how slow and sluggish HN has been (at least for me). Plus there are some real gems that pop up every time you refresh.<p>As he says:<p><i>The other day I "ran out" of stuff to read on Hacker News. I had looked at everything that interested me, and had even checked out page 2 (I was getting desperate).
I realized that there were thousands of great HN threads that I hadn't seen because I hadn't been paying attention to the site when they were ranking.
So I pulled together a little db of the top 10,000 HN threads (loosely defined; a thread with >1 points, 1> comments, and some web link rank).
I put these into a random shuffle so that reload would give me 30 fresh threads that I (probably) hadn't seen before.
I'm pretty happy with this. Lets me scratch my HN itch when I've exhausted the main page, and it's often interesting to see the old material again.</i><p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226914" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226914</a>