I actually caught myself checking your username to see if it was "Russell" (ref: Russell's paradox, regarding the set of all sets containing itself :-)
I remember pg saying that offers was pasted directly into the HN REPL and was only an experiment to see if it was popular enough to stick around. Guess it wasnt and offers was lost the next time the server rebooted.[1]
All the articles listed there have been in the last few weeks. It would be nice to see an all time best of list.
Maybe look at the upvotes vs registered users at the time? That way an article way back with 100 upvotes would be able to compete with a current one with 500.
This is nice, but it would be really nice if the scores could be normalized against the mean of the top 10 front page scores on the date submitted (or some such). pg, would this be possible?
It's always been there. well, for many months at least.
I suspect it's easier for pg to implement features than to introduce and document them, and there's not really an obvious place to find them. That is, not unless you want to dive into the source.
I'm surprised there aren't more 'hidden features of HN' blogposts floating around. If anybody wants a quick and honest way to slurp up some karma, they should write one.
