Ask PG: What's The Most Points One Submission Has Ever Received?
Ask PG: What's The Most Points One Submission Has Ever Recieved on Hackernews? What Was The Article?
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> (with (topi nil topscore 0)
(each-loaded-item i
(when (and (astory i) (> (realscore i) topscore))
(= topi i topscore (realscore i))))
(list topi!id topscore))
(459289 521)Direct link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289
In django, this might look something like this:
s = Stories.objects.order_by('-num_votes')[0]The query I did was much more complicated.
The Arc equivalent of yours is
((sort (compare > score) stories*) 0)Just in case it isn't clear, that order_by actually digs into the database layer to do the sorting there. It's a query that returns an iterator that gives you stories in that order one at a time.
To sort an existing list, over a particular member, it would be
To sort an existing list, over a particular member, it would be
Stories.sort( key = lambda x: x.score )Under the lists section of HN there is a best category with the top submissions.
http://news.ycombinator.com/best
http://news.ycombinator.com/best
It counts only recent submissions as far as I can tell though