It appears to be a page of stories with new users. Possibly intended as a quasi-...

networked · on March 22, 2014

Not a response to that story but I accidentally discovered /noobstories while searching for a link to the feature suggestion thread for a comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761. I then discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/lists while skimming the feature suggestion thread.

Funny how I missed those two for years despite finding four out the six things on /lists individually. Is /lists linked to from a static page on HN?

plorkyeran · on March 22, 2014

It's the leftmost link in the footer.

networked · on March 22, 2014

Now that's embarrassing. Apparently I never bothered clicking that link. Maybe "User/comment lists" would have been more encouraging, if a bit clumsy-looking.

patmcguire · on March 22, 2014

Wow, noobstories are awful https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories