Special HN pages like this one have to be made more well known. They are referenced throughout the site, but there is no central place to find all of them. Most of the new users will have never seen them before. Even the older users will have trouble finding them when the need to use them.

Here are some of these "special" pages for anyone who is curious:

New Polls (http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll)

Top Colors (http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors)

Formatting Options (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc)

Front Page with Threshold (http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100)

Classic Front Page [1] (http://news.ycombinator.com/classic)

[1] - The classic front page only counts votes from accounts that signed up in the first year that HN was released.

User jacquesm has an unofficial HN FAQ: http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

It was submitted and discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755533

The official FAQ can be found here: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I have been on HN for almost 3 years and never knew about that page.

Title needs a colon or a comma after "New HN users." It looks like a story about how new HN users do not overlook the "Lists" feature.

I am constantly surprised by people who call themselves "hackers" not exploring the entire site. I always had the idea that being a hacker was that one didn't ask "What does this do?", but instead asks: "What can I make this do?"

Exploration is at the heart of hacking. It's odd that people don't know about, for example, the "lists" page. The link is there.

ADDED IN EDIT: I see that at least one person has down-voted this comment. Do you disagree? Do you think hacking is something else? Or are you simply stung by the apparent criticism, and feel the need to lash out?

Do you not have the instinct to explore? Is that not a critical part of being a hacker?

(And in a further edit - clearly someone agrees and has up-voted again. Interesting.)

Search YC may not be a Hacker News page, it is still an important tool for me : http://searchyc.com/

I wish I had bookmarked along the way all those little tools built around HN... Which ones do you use?

There are a bunch of links at the bottom of every page, 'Lists' is one of them.

That's so funny... I noticed something was wrong when I received more karma than expected for my first couple of posts, but I didn't know why. Some people are probably using noobcomments to reward new posters with karma (I thought HN used a secret internal multiplier for the first couple of posts, but this is a much better explanation).

Why not put links to these on the top nav bar? It's not like there's no room up there.

Not just new users - I had no idea the page existed and I've been here for a while.

Maybe the reason these lists are not easily discovered is because they are taxing the server pretty heavily. It took quite a while to return the "leaders" list the first time I ran it, but it wasn't as bad the second time.