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by hilbert42 710 days ago
The single biggest problem I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately, a day or two later the article can be buried many pages down or have disappeared altogether.

Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it. Say, several days later I want to revisit a story that I remember the substance of but I have forgotten its title then sometimes it's almost impossible for me to find it again (stories often have short or cryptic titles that have little bearing with their content).

There's also a similar problem with comments, if I want to revisit a comment I read several days earlier, it's often almost impossible to find—unless I've noted the handle of the poster.

Another annoyance are stories behind firewalls, the poster will have access but many of us will not. It would make sense for these stories to be flagged with a big red dot or such so we can bypass them.

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> I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately

There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked a post as favourite you can access the list of such bookmarked posts under your profile settings called favourited posts

Here’s a link to your one : https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=hilbert42

> Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it. > There's also a similar problem with comments.

There’s tool at https://hn.algolia.com to help you search for posts via both title and comments

> There's also a similar problem with comments, if I want to revisit a comment I read several days earlier, it's often almost impossible to find—unless I've noted the handle of the poster.

You can quickly search for all comments on hn.algolia.com

Its a YC 2014 batch company.

I find it amazing that we both wrote a comment about HN favorite and https://hn.algolia.com within 5 minutes. You're is more complete though.
"There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked..."

Right, but that presupposes I want to remember or mark it at the time when I first read it which is usually not the case.

I browse HN from https://hckrnews.com/

It's chronological.

The homepage only works for the current day however. It sadly doesn't just accrue the entries like it does in the 10-50% categories
Not sure what you mean. It spans multiple days, it’s invite scroll.
This is how it looks on my end. Regardless wherever it's ipadOS, MacOS, Android or Windows

https://snipboard.io/sYOVin.jpg

JS blocking?

Edit: Nope. I get the same thing when I use the "homepage" tab/filter.

Weird. It’s infinite scroll on mine. iPad and Mac.
Are you sure you've set it to homepage? The other categories work for me too. The homepage one is the only one that only really worked for the last 24h
My hckrnews mashup lets you browse to a specific date: https://hw.leftium.com/#/date/2010.06.09

(That seems to be the first date data is available for)

I'm glad I mentioned this, it seems there are multiple solutions. Thanks.
2 days late, but creator here -- this is as designed.

Every entry on hckrnews has hit the homepage, so 'all' is exactly that. The current homepage filter is simply a filter to show what is presently on the homepage of news.ycombinator.com.

But this is not the first time someone has been confused about the homepage filter, so I could probably explain that better somehow.

Hmm. Perhaps that's a solution, I'll give it a try. Thanks.
Yeah I don't like disappearing articles. I've missed some very interesting articles only to stumble upon them by chance in https://hn.algolia.com

A quick tip though which helped me: you can favorite posts and comments. You need to open each to see the favorite link.

Yeah, as I said to teitoklien one has to do that at the time, trouble is I usually don't. :-)
Yes! It would be nice if the [favorite] link could be shown without opening.