HN is very opaque about how it ranks articles, I suspect that it's not only blind upvoting. If you look how articles move on hnranking, some move more naturall

HN is very opaque about how it ranks articles, I suspect that it's not only blind upvoting. If you look how articles move on hnranking, some move more naturally than others. This story in particular has a couple of very large boosts: http://hnrankings.info/11469285/ http://hnrankings.info/11469285/