Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom
(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".)
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...
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.
Maybe we should let people customize the top bar.
Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.
or on the top of the /ask page put a description and a link to /asknew to invite people to vote for good questions
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?
Of course!
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
> 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
> 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?
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=1718627440
it's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1718627440
unless I'm misunderstanding what you're after.
> 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?
If you go to your profile there are links for your post submissions, your comments, favorites, etc.
You can use „by:“ in the search query to limit search to posts or comments of a user.
When they have a unique name, it doesn't seem to matter.
I randomly discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories a few weeks 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?
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.
It seems to be broken and showing non-Ask content. Bugs happen; email the site admins and they can fix it (footer Contact link).
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.
maybe you installed a "Hacker news without AI" addon or script?
No
The pagination algorithm finally achieved peak optimization: fewer posts, less scrolling, more productivity.
I noticed this today as well, showing 15 but it seems short and it used to be paged.
Wow this is the first time I've seen a real visible bug on HN.
same (well 15, but it's limited)
I see 15
Likewise, and that seems to be because this submission is included, immediately prior to which it must have been 14.
I see 15.
Please subscribe for 15 more
You have reached the end of the internet. That is a paywall in front of you. What do you do?
Ride the shady web archiving engine that inexplicably seems to go in an out without a problem. Then download the rest of the internet.
Me to my AI hardness: "Go commit a few felonies and get me internet Gold++"
Also, the site is loading really slow for me now.
> insert quarter
Seeing the usual 30
Same and double checked and noticed I wasn't logged in so i logged in and I see still 30.
I also only see 15, logged in or not. And it is also showing some posts besides Ask/Tell.
I never use this section, though.
I see 30 and a more button, even on a different browser incognito
I see 15 and no "more", even logged in.
Is it based on browser? I'm running Google Chrome.
I checked in Firefox and Duckduckgo
I guess it could make a difference whether you swear or ask nicely :)
Looks like someone vibecoded and pushed without a review. Been observing too many bugs across X, Cursor etc
Vibecoding on hn admin plane would be ironic but I think it's improbable
The mods have said they use LLMs to code HN now, and for some moderation tasks.
Interesting, so a public post mortem would be enlightening to read