Can't order by hot/top (what was interesting over the last 48hrs? 7 days? etc).
PG can post his spam and we have to engage it.
The url news.ycombinator.com is of no use to 99% of us, we dont care about PG's startup incubator.
Why is no one setting HN free from PG's reign of mediocrity?
If you want something different create something that better suits you and share the result on HN.
You can even easily access the data.
There are a couple of cool websites that use the data in different ways. Join the crowd!