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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

205 points · 110 comments · theanonymousone

  1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
    This falls apart completely if you’re like me and only see the list presented on brutalist.report which is strictly chronological and with zero algorithms.
    1. Retr0id · · focus · HN ↗
      Looks algorithmic to me. Reverse-chronological with upvote threshold(?), where upvotes are correlated with sort rank on vanilla HN.
      1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
        Again, not a thing if you are on the site I mentioned.
        1. Retr0id · · focus · HN ↗
          Saying it a second time doesn't make it any more true.
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