Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)(observablehq.com)
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Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
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No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
Yeah typically I just dump things in the “reading list” on phone, which I eventually exfiltrate and clear every year or so on my phone, or add it to a list via the onetab extension on desktop.
Most of this is just “emotional support bookmarks” because I’m a pathological data hoarder that apparently needs to catalog and sort the entirety of human knowledge. Saving a list of links tricks my brain into releasing this intrusive anxiety and keeps me from engaging in this odd sort of compulsion.
But out of a thousand or two links a year, there are in fact a few dozen times I reach back to reference or use something I found.
Haven’t learned physic though. So far unit conversion, geometry and algebra have been all I’ve needed in my line of work in regards to equation solving, as I did agricultural plot trials for a bit.
Most of this is just “emotional support bookmarks” because I’m a pathological data hoarder that apparently needs to catalog and sort the entirety of human knowledge. Saving a list of links tricks my brain into releasing this intrusive anxiety and keeps me from engaging in this odd sort of compulsion.
But out of a thousand or two links a year, there are in fact a few dozen times I reach back to reference or use something I found.
Haven’t learned physic though. So far unit conversion, geometry and algebra have been all I’ve needed in my line of work in regards to equation solving, as I did agricultural plot trials for a bit.
I typically favorite ~30 articles a week. I favorite more often than I upvote.
I currently have 5,490 [1] favorited articles.
I tell myself I'm training an interest classifier on this data...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183
I currently have 5,490 [1] favorited articles.
I tell myself I'm training an interest classifier on this data...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183
I use upvotes exclusively, and I assume it's the typical user behavior: Algolia HN search lists posts sorted by upvotes, and the most popular post has 6k+ upvotes, whereas the most favorites had (3 years ago) 90 faves.
https://hn.algolia.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/
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For some 10+ years I did not use favorites (or was even aware that it existed).
Delicious then pinboard seemed enough.
With pinboard often being sluggish these days, I've been using HN favorites more and more.
With pinboard often being sluggish these days, I've been using HN favorites more and more.
Like star on Github I use favorite on HN as bookmarks.
Well this explains 90 faves putting a topic at nr 1.
Yeah, zero favorites, joined in Feb 2007.
So You Want to Learn Physics
this one is so popular, but I wonder of the millions of readers how many actually carried this out
this one is so popular, but I wonder of the millions of readers how many actually carried this out
I bookmark things like this all the time, and my bookmark list is effectively a black hole.
I managed to get through two separate “learn something about complicated topic in one weekend” this year, so I’ll call that a W.
I managed to get through two separate “learn something about complicated topic in one weekend” this year, so I’ll call that a W.
Bookmarks are a rare example of Write-Only Memory, or WOM.
Similar for me. It is almost as if once I bookmark something, it disappears from the internet. I never see it again.
Ok, that Web Design in 4 minutes post is awesome.
Somewhat ironically his https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook is 404
I didn’t even know you could favorite…
I'm not super-familiar with observablehq.com. Is there a way for us to run this query for 2023? Or is that only possible by the author of this list?
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073