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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
- peter_d_sherman 7y agoGreat article! My takeaways from it include practical use-cases for Differential Equations (I was never interested in solving the Heat Equation, btw, how boring is heat?), and what a good article/news/post ranking algorithm should do to avoid sock puppet voting and bot-powered voting rings... If I were to suggest a new title for the article, it would be "How to write a better content ranking algorithm, with examples from Differential Calculus", or perhaps, "Learn Differential Calculus with examples from a real-world content ranking algorithm". Anyway, this article has to be in my top-ten all-time favorites on HN.