You can find them at the "lists" link at the bottom of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Interestingly, “highlights” is not there.

"Classic" is not there.

Huh, what's the difference between /{top,best}comments?

> However, in maintaining its simplicity, many new features and behaviors added over the years on Hacker News are not fully documented other than the occasional comments from staff.

Ahahaha what?!? That is the opposite of "simplicity". Instead of exposing the functionality, it is hidden away but still active, and to know how it works you have to hunt through potentially thousands of comments, which might already have been obsoleted by later comments.

What's wrong with just having a help page? Or a sitemap? Sitemaps are pretty old school, they should be right up HN's alley, no?

And verily, it was bequeathed that only the high priests and priestesses may sup from the hamburger menu of The YC Lord's bountiful functionality.

Afaik HN is built around the idea of being as hard to use as possible, to avoid becoming Reddit.

/active is the real Hacker News front page IMO