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

205 points · 110 comments · theanonymousone

  1. kens · · focus · HN ↗
    Author here. I don't know why this popped up 13 years later, but hi :-)
    1. Oscalemor · · focus · HN ↗
      Eager for the update! I assume there's already a couple of early hypotheses on the system.

      Even more interesting to know when X.com, famously published its algorithm. Perhaps someday we'll find the fairest of them all

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