Just went onto /lists, and saw the new highlights link. It seems to be about interesting comments that is user curated.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights">https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights</a>
It's been around for a while, I just got prompted to add it to /lists recently: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579724</a>.<p>All: if you see a particularly great comment, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully add it. We don't want to be the only ones noticing these!
I hesitate to admit this, since I have a 14 year old account- but this is the first I have ever heard of /lists. I can get to it by appending "/lists" to the url, but I can't see a "lists" link anywhere on the site- is it some kind of hidden page? If so- are there more?
Nice to see Clifford Stoll currently topping the page. I bought The Cuckoo's Egg after reading enough people recommending it on HN and so to see the author referencing the main events in that book as the most recent highlight kinda brings things full circle!
I recall there used to be a way of getting a snapshot of the way the front-page looked, say, 2 hours ago. Can't find it now. Anyone knows?<p>Edit: Found it at /front but looks like it's a snapshot on a per-day resolution, not hourly or arbitrary For example:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-23">https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-23</a>
Thanks for bringing attention to this. I will add this endpoint to my hacker news app HACK.<p>Are there any other endpoints people don't know about?
Haha, I was looking for myself on there, getting dejected that I never contributed anything of note, but then I found a comment about one of the silly things I made:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok?feature=shared</a><p>I had forgotten about that. Gave me a laugh, so thanks for that.