You can <i>almost</i> do this using the search.<p>Most popular stories - <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix=f...</a>
Most popular comments - <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix=f...</a><p>... but what Algolia are doing to get "most popular", at least for comments, isn't the number of votes, so it's not what most people would consider 'right'.