Ask HN: who knows about this - "http://News.YCombinator.com/classic"?
16 years ago
Although this link is not visible on the navbar if you navigate to http://news.ycombinator.com/classic, you actually get to a page. How many people here know of this? and why isnt it visible on the navbar? And what purpose does it serve?
It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage.
Apart from news.ycombinator.com/classic,are there other hidden features of hacker news?
http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
http://news.ycombinator.com/best
It sorts content based on accounts over a year old I believe.
I think it was created when there were complaints about the declining quality of content on hacker news and most of the classic rankings were similar if not the same as the normal rankings.
Didn't know about it, but it appears to just be using a different algorithm to sort stories.