HACKER Q&A
📣 rg111

Is there any way to rank stories on HN from sites based on votes?


(Excuse my noobness, please.)

Hi, I think you already know that when you click on the post link of a story, all stories from that top level domain appears.

If there is a video from YouTube, then, if I click on

    (youtube.com)
, then all posts having YouTube as a top level domain appears as result.

The API call looks like

    from?site=YouTube.com
But this is always sorted based on time of posting. Can this be changed?

Say, I want to see all stories from New Yorker, ranked based on votes those stories received, what do I do?

I know this part-

    https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com
But what more do I add to rank the result based on number of votes?

Or is there a completely different way to do this?

  👤 perihelions Accepted Answer ✓
You can use the built-in Algolia search, like so:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=newyorker.com&type=story&sort=...

With the domain as the search string ("&query=newyorker.com"), the results will be returned in groups, in (to my understanding) this order:

- (0) Posts with the literal string "newyorker.com" in the *title* (there are currently none)

- (1) Text posts containing "newyorker.com" links

- (2) Posts from the domain newyorker.com (or a URL that contains that substring)

If you scroll down to the (2) section, you will find what you asked for: all newyorker.com submissions, sorted by popularity.