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Comment by gedrap

9 years ago

What I find more annoying is that it's on the right hand side even though all the other actions (vote on post, vote on comment, reply) are on the left hand side. Seems like a trivial thing but that is annoying quite a bit.

>>> 5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent there. For example, Alan Kay's AMA had the most front page time on June 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20

That's cool, I guess, but algolia <https://hn.algolia.com/> seems like a much better tool for the task.

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tedmiston  9 years ago

From your comment, I was curious whether they were pulling the results from Algolia behind the scenes. The result sets for a given day look to be pretty different with Algolia being ordered by points purely.

Front [0]

(92 stories hit the front page)

Top 10:

    1. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
    2. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
    3. Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 3: Inside the disk drive
    4. Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity
    5. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations
    6. Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
    7. Yoshi (YC S16) launches “set it and forget it” vehicle re-fueling service in SF
    8. A Glimpse into the Apollo Guidance Computer
    9. Errol Morris's Secret Weapon for Unsettling Interviews: The Interrotron
    10. Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins

Algolia [1]

(885 stories)

Top 10:

    1. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
    2. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
    3. Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
    4. How we're scammed into eating phony food
    5. Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
    6. Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta
    7. Elixir 1.3.1 released
    8. Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
    9. A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
    10. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

Note: The Algolia date picker doesn't seem to like you starting and ending on the same day. It changes start date to the day before, so perhaps this is including a little more than one day of data.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-07-11

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...