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- You have reached the end of the internet. That is a paywall in front of you. What do you do?by lurn_mor
- Wow this is the first time I've seen a real visible bug on HN.by lurker919
- I noticed this today as well, showing 15 but it seems short and it used to be paged.by bigwheels
- I don't regularly check Ask HN so I'm uncertain that more should be listed, although I would expect so. But assuming you haven't, the correct place to contact is hn@ycombinator.com which can be found at the contact link at the bottom of the page.by kencausey
- If you want to see the uncurated slushpile, check /asknew instead of /ask. It's documented in the Lists link at the bottom of the page.by ThrowawayR2
- It seems to be broken and showing non-Ask content. Bugs happen; email the site admins and they can fix it (footer Contact link).by altairprime
- maybe you installed a "Hacker news without AI" addon or script?by tcfhgj
- (OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".)
The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.
This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.
I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...
by dang