8 points within 30 minutes = second place on the front page, an article of questionable quality and substance from TC, I agree that HN's ranking algorithm could

8 points within 30 minutes = second place on the front page, an article of questionable quality and substance from TC, I agree that HN's ranking algorithm could use some serious tweaking. It's also interesting to see how younger articles with more upvotes are placed lower than this one (for example, the FSM Akka article at the time of this comment). Edit: they seem to have fixed it.