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Because they don’t generate interest ?

• abhisuri97 7y ago
  But they get a number of upvotes (which could be considered a proxy indicator of interest). In some instances the show page top submission has a higher up vote count than most of the front page but still does not show up.
  • cottsak 7y ago
    It's not for us mere mortals to try understand the HN home page algorithms .. but there are a couple of lines here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  • Tomte 7y ago
    There a few Ask HNs. You can see that the Ask HN page moves much slower. So the upvotes are spread out over a long time, and the ranking algorithm heavily discounts spread-out upvotes.