Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

Gooblebrai

5 hours ago

40points

I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom

37 comments

Comments

dang•4 hours ago

(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...

areoform•2 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•18 minutes ago

Similarly we should have one for /active also I think.

em-bee•39 minutes 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•4 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•2 hours ago

> is there any place to find a full list of HN's lists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

owlninja•2 hours ago

I randomly discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories a few weeks ago

1718627440•3 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?

mh-•3 hours ago

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.

Cider9986•3 hours ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

esseph•2 hours ago

If you go to your profile there are links for your post submissions, your comments, favorites, etc.

Teever•4 hours ago

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?

verdverm•4 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•31 minutes ago

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ThrowawayR2•5 hours 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•5 hours 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).

tcfhgj•4 hours ago

maybe you installed a "Hacker news without AI" addon or script?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659647

kencausey•5 hours 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.

bigwheels•5 hours ago

I noticed this today as well, showing 15 but it seems short and it used to be paged.

lurker919•5 hours ago

Wow this is the first time I've seen a real visible bug on HN.

dmitrygr•5 hours ago

Seeing the usual 30

entropie•5 hours ago

Same and double checked and noticed I wasn't logged in so i logged in and I see still 30.

ASalazarMX•5 hours ago

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.

imzadi•5 hours ago

I see 30 and a more button, even on a different browser incognito

AnimalMuppet•5 hours ago

I see 15 and no "more", even logged in.

Is it based on browser? I'm running Google Chrome.

imzadi•5 hours ago

I checked in Firefox and Duckduckgo

fuzzfactor•5 hours ago

I guess it could make a difference whether you swear or ask nicely :)

Aboutplants•5 hours ago

I see 15

kazinator•4 hours ago

Likewise, and that seems to be because this submission is included, immediately prior to which it must have been 14.

aktenlage•5 hours ago

I see 15.