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Ask HN: How Hacker News post are ranked?

• gamechangr 9y ago
  This is asked very regularly. HN has an official policy which you can google. Here is one interesting (maybe too long) answer: http://sangaline.com/post/reverse-engineering-the-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm/ http://sangaline.com/post/reverse-engineering-the-hacker-new...
  • ghostpirate 9y ago
    Thanks a lot
• gus_massa 9y ago
  Essentially, they are ordered by points / age^2 * a-lot-of-penalties A more detailed (old) discussion is in: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 (920 points, 1240 days ago, 190 comments) The algorithm is tweaked from time to time without warning, so many details may have changed since this was posted ~3 years ago. But the main idea is still there.