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I bet a large majority of success would be based on that piece's past performance (Reddit, Delicious, HN, repeat submissions, etc.). An "algorithm" like that is
by bryanh 16y ago
I bet a large majority of success would be based on that piece's past performance (Reddit, Delicious, HN, repeat submissions, etc.). An "algorithm" like that is probably pretty trivial... It would be interesting if it actually has novel concepts powering the beast.
- jacquesm 16y agoThere was this post yesterday that actually showed that there is no strong correlation between how articles do when posted to multiple sites. In fact, if something got posted to digg and did well there that's a pretty good indicator that on HN it will get killed.
- luu 16y agoIn fact, if something got posted to digg and did well there that's a pretty good indicator that on HN it will get killed. Isn't that a strong (negative) correlation?
- jacquesm 16y agoHehe, good point. But it's not a hard rule though.
- mukyu 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631199 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631199 Is this the story you are thinking of?
- antirez 16y agowould be interesting for us... but from a business point of view, many companies sometimes just want something that is able to work now, and with a decent degree of reliability. So I would not be surprised if the guy mentioned actually will be able to sell this program for a decent amount of money.