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It's currently tied for 4th for the highest upvote rate, of the 30 posts on the front page. This isn't pg secretly manipulating HN to boost Common Lisp blogs; w
by perihelions 4y ago
It's currently tied for 4th for the highest upvote rate, of the 30 posts on the front page. This isn't pg secretly manipulating HN to boost Common Lisp blogs; we're just organically crazy.
(I'm also confused who's enthusiastically upvoting 3-paragraph long text blogs).
52.7 points/minute :: "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan (sciencedirect.com)"
38.0 points/minute :: "Japan WWII poison gas agents still scarring people today (mainichi.jp)"
36.8 points/minute :: "Baker's Math (thefreshloaf.com)"
36.0 points/minute :: "Cobra Maneuver (wikipedia.org)"
36.0 points/minute :: "I Just Can't Kick Lisp (djha.skin)"
33.0 points/minute :: "Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia (forbes.com/sites/paultassi)"
&c...
- solarmist 4y agoHow did you get points per minute information? Is that how submission ordering is done on HN?
- perihelions 4y agoJust the [points] divided by [minutes|hours ago] thing. There's no better API data as far as I'm aware. https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api - "Is that how submission ordering is done on HN?" I have no idea, actually! There's clearly a pretty complicated algorithm behind it.