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Excerpt from the current Hacker News top 30: 2. China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mission (101 points, 3h ago) 7. Quantum computers: 10-fold boo
by jpetso 10y ago
Excerpt from the current Hacker News top 30:
2. China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mission
(101 points, 3h ago)
7. Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved
(63 points, 4h ago)
30. Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions (this thread)
(348 points, 2h ago)
I recognize that the Hacker News ranking algorithm takes more criteria into account than just current number of points and time posted, but this is an instance where a little extra transparency in the ranking model would help to show that this is not an arbitrary moderated downrank.
- notliketherest 10y agoI've noticed this for the past few months. Anything touching the current US election, no matter how engaging, is quickly sent off the front page. I'd guess it'd have to do with a quickly growing "Flame war", either by volume of down votes or flags or both.
- sctb 10y agoThis thread received a large number of user flags and was also heavily penalized by the software flamewar detector, but we've turned that off. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729270.