4 ms·

How do you work out what's hot, if you don't mind me asking? Something based on the points, comments and time I'm guessing?

• anigbrowl 16y ago
  Yeah, it's in the screenshots. Cute little utility. suggestion: maintain a local cache of usernames I frequently upvote/downvote/ reply to/whose links I click. Special highlight for threads in which I have already commented or in which my top X posters are participants.
  • what 16y ago
    Screenshot doesn't really tell me how it calculates hotness. HN already uses some form of hotness based on points/time, but this uses a different formula I think.
    • paulgb 16y ago
      It looks like it simply uses the number of comments for highlighting comments links, and the number of points to highlight points counters.
      • what 16y ago
        Yeah seems that way, I just saw two comments with the same number of points but significantly different posting times and they have the same color. Thought time might be factored in too, like HN does points/(time since submitted)^2. Also noticed that it doesn't differentiate between positive and negative scores. A score of -4 is hotter than a score of 1.
        • btw0 16y ago
          Thanks! You just found me a bug, I am going to fix it :)