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/rever

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...