Sir if you could finally add keyword filters, I wouldn’t spend half a second considering an alternative. I sorely missed this the past years while HN has been spammed with AI marketing.
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.
This matches my experience having received one Nov 2018 (and returning it a few weeks later). It was constantly getting my actual sleep times wrong, more often than not marking me as being asleep while watching tv in the evening.
After contacting support, their solution was an upcoming update to their app where I'd be able to edit the data so that I could override the app whenever I knew it was wrong. Which completely invalidates the primary reason to own this product. I mean, if I knew when I was asleep, why would I need a ring to track it?!
So given that it couldn't properly track sleep, doesn't track activity (by design), the only other purpose in my mind was to track HRV. And count me as skeptical of the accuracy of that data as well.
"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)" vs "Beef" is a minuscule difference?
Do you realize that there are many scary-sounding chemicals in a cow's digestive system too? That's not even counting things like artificial growth hormones and antibiotics. Beef is a processed food too. You could feed a lot of these same ingredients to a cow to get beef. How is that really better? One processing system is repeatable and auditable. The other says moo. I'm not saying the organic ambulatory processor is worse, but we need to get past assuming it's better.
Plant based meat is "Improving Human Health", vs Animal based meat which according to them has "16% Increased cancer risk", and "21% Increased Heart Disease Risk.
That's what is intended -- it shows the items currently on the frontpage. So it will not show entry from the previous days because they are no longer on the frontpage. (The UI should not show the previous days in this case, and maybe there is something more I could be doing to make more obvious what is supposed to be happening).
Curiously the entries from April 6 that do show up is a bug due to an issue I had with the process going down for a number of hours, leaving those two entries not being properly updated to remove the 'homepage' flag.
That's what the 'all' option does. It shows all items that made the front page that were submitted on any given day, whether it was on the front page for 2 days straight or for just a few minutes.
I had the same issue with Feedly's "features". I've maintained a stylish extension for Feedly that I keep adding to. Every time they add something that I don't want to see, I hide it via css. Thanks for the prompt, I just hid the patronising "Well done" that's been annoying me.
I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.
So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.
btw, to those who want a dark mode for hcrknews, try: https://hckrnews.com/beta/