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Great roundup, thanks! As I write this, 6 hours after this very-long-anticipated story was at the top of the front page, it's now down on page 3 with 299 upvote

Great roundup, thanks! As I write this, 6 hours after this very-long-anticipated story was at the top of the front page, it's now down on page 3 with 299 upvotes. Not complaining, just find the ranking system to be so inscrutable at times like this. If I hadn't checked the site this morning, I'd have missed it. With a story history like this, I'd think it reasonable for the story to ride the front page all day. Of course, computers only do what one tells them to do, and ranking systems are hard...

dang 5y ago
This topic had a major thread just a few weeks ago. We try to avoid too much repetition here, because it's not good for curiosity. Popular projects often get submissions of every step of the release lifecycle, from major commits, to PRs, to merges into main branches, to alpha releases and beta releases and GA releases. These are all significant milestones for people who care about the project, and the project is deservedly popular! But from an HN point of view, they are distinctions without differences, because the underlying topic of discussion is always the same—the project in general. I wrote a detailed explanation about just this sort of situation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Further explanations at these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
- Scramblejams 5y ago
  Thank you!

dang 5y ago

This topic had a major thread just a few weeks ago. We try to avoid too much repetition here, because it's not good for curiosity. Popular projects often get submissions of every step of the release lifecycle, from major commits, to PRs, to merges into main branches, to alpha releases and beta releases and GA releases. These are all significant milestones for people who care about the project, and the project is deservedly popular! But from an HN point of view, they are distinctions without differences, because the underlying topic of discussion is always the same—the project in general. I wrote a detailed explanation about just this sort of situation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Further explanations at these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Scramblejams 5y ago
Thank you!