Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when using Hacker News?

  • If there was too much transparency marketers would try to game the system. It works well enough the way it is. But I have observed that stories in which the comments are unproductive or too heated tend to rank lower.

  • Will be nice to have option to search at own bookmarks only

  • HNRankings helps: https://hnrankings.info/

  • Just found one.

    Haven't been able to search Show HN in a thorough timeline, in order of submission, starting with current submissions going back very far at all.

    "show" doesn't do it, "past" doesn't either.

  • Not being able to block posts or comments by some users.

  • I routinely fat-finger the hide button while browsing on my phone. I then need to fish the article out from somewhere within my profile.

  • Groupthink and heavy pro-establishment bias

  • I don't have any. It's my #1 go to news source

  • If there is a downvoting feature (which I consider contraproductive), there should also be an "unflagging" feature.