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Also, how much of the ranking is just determined by factors other than user-votes?

• bborud 6y ago
  I made a similar piece of software to Hacker News about a year ago and I found what was probably an earlier copy of the source code for hacker news somewhere. I seem to remember that the score that items are sorted by was a weighted sum of the inverse of the age and the votes. I don't remember if the votes themselves were assigned different values based on some context. Perhaps ask pg? Who knows, he might tell us :-) (I'm not a Lisp'er, and I've never been particularly fond of Lisp, but I have to admit I enjoyed reading the Hacker News source. It had a lovely minimalism to it)