Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN
Hey HN. I created this website.https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this.I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I never really did anything with the idea. So I decided just to make it into a little single-page web app.The Hacker News API is pretty cool because it doesn't require an API key, so you can just vibe code against it super easy. I just loaded up Claude Code and started talking to it. That first night when I was recording, it was just me with this repo, that I call 'thefuture' and I just put everything in there: scripts, whatever. Then i'll have Claude Code use OpenAI to talk to me and I'll just get bored and explore different APIs and see what I can come up with. That's all inside a single repo that Claude Code knows about, and just set it in YOLO mode and just go to town - it's super fun. It's kind of slow though, so that's the only downside. But if you put a script in there for Claude to talk to you, it can be pretty fun just to explore things.This website is just one idea extracted from that one session of messing around with a Claude Code last month. I open sourced it, you can look at the repo here: https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked
87 points by pj4533 - 18 comments
What I want is a /random endpoint that randomly shuffles through posts from the following "unofficial" endpoints:
https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
https://news.ycombinator.com/best
https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/active
https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
I guess you haven’t figured out the time travel issue yet, but being able to find quality older threads is definitely something I like.
Perhaps a filter option to help people find specific kinds of topic could be added? :)
If a lot of people use this tool and comment on previously overlooked posts, the number of comments will even out (because the passion score will drop), and maybe we will get better variety of posts.
I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.