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

205 points · 110 comments · theanonymousone

  1. tptacek · · focus · HN ↗
    Presumably this has gotten way, way more complicated in the last 13 years.
    1. tclancy · · focus · HN ↗
      Why?
      1. hn_throwaway_99 · · focus · HN ↗
        More powerful bots and more incentives to game the system.
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