(OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".)
This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.
I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...
areoform 22 hours ago [-]
Hey dang, I didn't know asknew existed and I've been using it for a while. I kept going to ask. I think it would be helpful if it was a tab on its own next to new on the top bar. I want to engage with other people's projects; I just didn't know where or how.
vismit2000 20 hours ago [-]
Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.
dang 19 hours ago [-]
Maybe we should let people customize the top bar.
em-bee 20 hours ago [-]
or on the top of the /ask page put a description and a link to /asknew to invite people to vote for good questions
peesem 24 hours ago [-]
is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists? obviously there's the "lists" link at the bottom of the page but that is missing some, e.g. the above /ask (but /asknew is there?) and some others i've heard of but don't remember the link for e.g. a list of comments detected to be anti-ai
edit: just noticed /ask probably isn't there because it's in the navbar, lol. but still
stackghost 22 hours ago [-]
> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?
read the second sentence of my comment. if you'd like an example of a list that exists but is not on that page (in fact the one i mentioned not being able to remember), see https://news.ycombinator.com/genai-pushback
1718627440 23 hours ago [-]
> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?
What I wondered: Is there another list for e.g. my own comments? I would like to have a page with all my comments, so I could search in them. Is there already a way to instruct HN to provide this, or do I need to make my own crawler?
I've thought about submitting a "What are you listening to" question to get conversation about music and podcasts going, would that be an acceptable question to ask?
dang 19 hours ago [-]
Of course!
verdverm 24 hours ago [-]
> Not sure what the solution is
Is it a growing pattern or cyclical in some way? Does it need a solution or will it work itself out in time?
aaron695 20 hours ago [-]
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ThrowawayR2 1 days ago [-]
If you want to see the uncurated slushpile, check /asknew instead of /ask. It's documented in the Lists link at the bottom of the page.
altairprime 1 days ago [-]
It seems to be broken and showing non-Ask content. Bugs happen; email the site admins and they can fix it (footer Contact link).
kencausey 1 days ago [-]
I don't regularly check Ask HN so I'm uncertain that more should be listed, although I would expect so. But assuming you haven't, the correct place to contact is hn@ycombinator.com which can be found at the contact link at the bottom of the page.
tcfhgj 24 hours ago [-]
maybe you installed a "Hacker news without AI" addon or script?
The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.
This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.
I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...
edit: just noticed /ask probably isn't there because it's in the navbar, lol. but still
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
What I wondered: Is there another list for e.g. my own comments? I would like to have a page with all my comments, so I could search in them. Is there already a way to instruct HN to provide this, or do I need to make my own crawler?
it's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1718627440
unless I'm misunderstanding what you're after.
Yes. My question is: do I need to write a crawler following next links or is there a way to have a single unpaginated list?
Is it a growing pattern or cyclical in some way? Does it need a solution or will it work itself out in time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659647
Also, the site is loading really slow for me now.
I never use this section, though.
Is it based on browser? I'm running Google Chrome.