HN Overlooked
Productivity
content discovery
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for finding older quality threads and missed posts
From 3 comments
I really like this idea. Every so often I’ll come across a weeks, months or years old thread that I’d like to have been able to participate in at the time or that has interesting…
sunrunner on HNCool, found this gem with it.
janmarsal on HNThis is great, I use the Second Chance Pool quite but I like this also. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
neom on HN
Objections
Ranking by text length and passion score is a weak proxy for quality
From 3 comments
So "passion score" just finds long posts that were not interacted with? I'm not sure it's a proxy for quality.
curtisblaine on HNIt does seem like the "passion score" is a rule-of-thumb estimate at best. A lengthy post could just be someone rambling, and a short post could be from a timid dev sharing their…
hyperific on HNLLMs are also notoriously verbose. Don't know if that's the case here, but not sure how "Passion" protects against that
cglong on HN
Results skew toward AI posts
From 1 comment
I tried it and it's just a list of posts about AI
nomsters on HN
Unsanitized titles render HTML
From 1 comment
Looks like you need to sanitize the titles. There's a post on the 8th page now that has an <input> tag that's getting rendered and is clickable.
jovial_cavalier on HN
Requests
Add search or filter to results
From 2 comments
Maybe add a search/filter to the results. I had to browse through 4 whole pages to make sure your post is actually there!
janmarsal on HNI really like this idea. Every so often I’ll come across a weeks, months or years old thread that I’d like to have been able to participate in at the time or that has interesting…
sunrunner on HN
Add a random endpoint across HN lists
From 2 comments
Nice! What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints: https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew…
coffeecoders on HNAnd https://news.ycombinator.com/invited ("Overlooked links, invited to repost") maybe. The lists are on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (link in the footer of every HN page)
mtmail on HN
Add controversial comments feature
From 1 comment
can you add a "find controversial comments" feature? controversial posts would be nice, but I don't think downvoting posts is available
tonymet on HN
Questions
Does it cover posts beyond Show HN and Ask HN?
From 1 comment
Text length? So this is focused on Show HN:'s and Asks? That's cool to find missed projects people have submitted, but considering a majority of posts interesting and not are…
ChrisArchitect on HN
Alternatives named
Second Chance Pool
From 2 comments
This is great, I use the Second Chance Pool quite but I like this also. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
neom on HNFor those unfamiliar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ... It's basically a bunch of posts that 'dang and 'tomhow (others too? idk) think are underrated, so it tends…
ucarion on HN
HN lists page (shownew, best, active, invited)
From 2 comments
Nice! What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints: https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew…
coffeecoders on HNAnd https://news.ycombinator.com/invited ("Overlooked links, invited to repost") maybe. The lists are on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (link in the footer of every HN page)
mtmail on HN