Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page

Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by bengtan on Sunday June 13, 2021 @10:39AM (#27493014)

Hmmm ... I thought a lot about this ie. whether to include the HN link. Problem is ... when I write the newsletter, most HN links are empty or only have one or two comments.

Later on, the story reaches the front page on HN but it's a new HN link. So if I include the 'original' HN link, it's not useful to the reader, and may even mislead them into thinking there was insignificant HN discussion.

For example, I linked this story:

[Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser](https://stopa.io/post/279)

in early May but it only recently garnered significant discussion a month later in early June (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424496).

So I'm not entirely sure how to resolve this.

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by codetrotter on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:01AM (#27493189)

You could use the “past” link that leads to Algolia search for the story.

In the case of your example https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Web%20Applications%20from%20th...

But not sure if that’s a good idea or not. Just suggesting it as one alternative to consider

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by bengtan on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:11PM (#27498244)

I'm gonna think on how to solve this conundrum in a way that satisfies everyone. This is one data point I'll think about. Thanks for bringing it up.

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by jacquesm on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:42PM (#27494042)

But then your traffic would drive that HN discussion and then comments would appear.

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by bengtan on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:10PM (#27498243)

Interesting. I didn't consider this.

I'm gonna think on how to solve this conundrum in a way that satisfies everyone. This is one data point I'll think about. Thanks for bringing it up.

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by chalst on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:49AM (#27526342)

These links are useful even if they don't have a discussion:

1. It's interesting to see that a story has been submitted many times, for instance. This can be seen by clicking on the domain name in brackets after the story

E.g., a few days ago I posted a link to Heidi Howard & Ittai Abraham's 'Raft does not Guarantee Liveness in the face of Network Faults'

It was the fourth time this 6-month-old link had been posted, each time attracting upvotes but not enough to get on the front page. (I think it usually takes about five upvotes for a story still on the first page of 'new').

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=decentralizedthoughts...

2. Given that your newsletter mostly contains links that are less than a week old, the discussion link will still be live. You seem to think discussion is most likely to happen on a resubmitted link: I'm guessing your newsletter's readership is unlikely to be large enough to get the regular kind of front-page HN discussion going for many of the stories in your newsletter, but the opportunity to comment can still have value even if only a couple of comments are posted.

3. If a story is well-written, I generally like to glance at other things the author has written, and looking at stories that have been upvoted here on HN is often a good place to start.

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Re:Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front... by skinnymuch on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:45AM (#27501128)

I hope you think on this. On principle I think it’s wrong, but personally I care far more about any sort of discussion in general. I want some sort of link to a [higher quality] discussion or potential of one. I enjoy HN comments and the community. Trusted above others like Ars comments.

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