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few years ago that would be a news

• phoenix24 16y ago
  With only 6 points, how does this submission show up at the HN front page? or are the submissions ranking even based on points?
  • dododo 16y ago
    i surmise it's the rate at which an article/comment gets points that determines its ranking.
  • mrduncan 16y ago
    Votes divided by the age in hours to the gravityth power. Although, the current algorithm is probably slightly different to combat spammers. http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc#L262 http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc#L262