Re:Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?
by DrJokepu on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:08AM
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What does it do? What does "hot" mean? I think it would be great if you could answer these questions in very briefly on the site.
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You're right, the description on the site is not very helpful, I'll add that.
TL;DR It's just a visualization layer above the HN frontpage. Hot means a post has either 'a lot of comments' or 'a lot of points' (configurable with the filter dropdown). It's not much but I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in having such a way of looking at HN. If there's someone who found that useful I'd probably develop it further