Tool for Discovering High-Effort, Low-Engagement Posts on Hacker News
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Summary
This article describes a tool called 'HN Overlooked Recent Posts' that helps users discover high-quality, high-effort content on Hacker News that hasn't received much attention. The tool searches recent posts from the last 3-7 days across Ask, Show, and New story feeds, and ranks them using a 'Passion Score' algorithm that identifies content with substantial text/effort but low engagement.
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We search the HN API's Ask, Show, and New story feeds, which typically contain posts from the last 3-7 days.
Posts are ranked by their Passion Score, which identifies high-effort, low-engagement content.
Passion Score = (Text
This tool helps you discover recent hidden gems on Hacker News – high-effort posts that haven't gotten much attention.
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