I've noticed HN has quite a few things that aren't secret, but also aren't well known.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/classic" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/classic</a><p>are two examples off the top of my head.<p>In my opinion, one of the <i>biggest not-a-secret values</i> is the looking into threads of others. It isn't a feature outright, but you just bookmark the comments of key people into a folder. For example, every now and then I check in on the comments of Putnam winner <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva</a><p>or maybe jump over to <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dhouston" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dhouston</a> the founder of Dropbox<p>Moot is always seems to make me chuckle: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moot" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moot</a><p>Of course there is <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kn0thing" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kn0thing</a> too<p>...and you get the gist. Don't stalk it everyday as that'd be a waste of time, but from time to time it helps you catch up on something insightful you otherwise would have completely missed.
Along with some lesser known links found here[0], I'd also mention being able to filter for items with large numbers of points:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=150" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=150</a><p>It's not unlocked by karma, but it's a relatively unknown feature.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/lists" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/lists</a>
Haha I don't think is actually a thing. But it would be really cool if they did stuff like this. It would be sweet to get an icon every time you hit a significant number, like 1024, 32767 or 80085