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

28 points by Gooblebrai 3 hours ago | 31 comments

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

dang 41 minutes 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...

peesem 30 minutes 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

1718627440 11 minutes 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- 6 minutes 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 6 minutes ago

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

Teever 17 minutes 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 37 minutes 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?

tcfhgj 48 minutes ago

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

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

altairprime 3 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).

ThrowawayR2 2 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.

kencausey 2 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 2 hours ago

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

lurker919 2 hours ago

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

lurn_mor 2 hours ago

You have reached the end of the internet. That is a paywall in front of you. What do you do?

pixl97 2 hours ago

Me to my AI hardness: "Go commit a few felonies and get me internet Gold++"

Also, the site is loading really slow for me now.

orbital-decay 2 hours ago

Ride the shady web archiving engine that inexplicably seems to go in an out without a problem. Then download the rest of the internet.

luxuryballs 2 hours ago

> insert quarter

pluc 2 hours ago

Please subscribe for 15 more

dmitrygr 3 hours ago

Seeing the usual 30

entropie 2 hours ago

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

ASalazarMX 2 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 2 hours ago

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

AnimalMuppet 2 hours ago

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

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

imzadi 2 hours ago

I checked in Firefox and Duckduckgo

fuzzfactor 2 hours ago

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

Aboutplants 3 hours ago

I see 15

kazinator 57 minutes ago

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

aktenlage 3 hours ago

I see 15.

tonymet 2 hours ago

same (well 15, but it's limited)

gj0 2 hours ago

Looks like someone vibecoded and pushed without a review. Been observing too many bugs across X, Cursor etc

gchamonlive 2 hours ago

Vibecoding on hn admin plane would be ironic but I think it's improbable