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So... this is written in a coding language that I don't know or fully understand, but it looks like "frontpage-rank" is based upon "gravity" which is some kind

So... this is written in a coding language that I don't know or fully understand, but it looks like "frontpage-rank" is based upon "gravity" which is some kind of calculation on the number of upvotes per hour. https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc I also have no idea if that codebase is the one used here. It says it is a copy, but several years old. So just my two cents trying to answer your question.

pluma 9y ago
No, that's not how it works, sadly. HN is explicitly curated, so some posts get bumped/nerfed by moderators. Also the "natural" rank seems to be a lot more complicated than just upvotes over time. There are a lot of companies trying to game HN to get more eyeballs. If it were as simple as "number of upvotes per hour" HN would be full of blogspam. EDIT: Case in point: the link just dropped off the frontpage extremely quickly. I'm guessing a moderator penalised it.