&gt; I fear that part of the problem is that stories get posted, have good discussions, and fall off the front page before many readers see them.<p>That&#x27;s it, and I share your fear. I don&#x27;t know how to solve it. Maybe it&#x27;s what the majority wants on the top, maybe it&#x27;s what a vocal minority with high karma points doesn&#x27;t want (flagging&#x2F;whatever negative news). I just see the end result. I would just like to get the big picture on the frontpage and not have to rely on algolia search for that.<p>One thing I realized is that HN front page has very different topics depending on which time I check HN. It shifts its focus depending when people tend to visit HN from east cost, west cost, europe, asia. A useful function would be to check out the HN frontpage how it looked at a specific time. Let&#x27;s say I would like to see HN as it looked like 8am Pacific timezone yesterday. I know about <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;lists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;lists</a> , maybe add another filter to that list.