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With all due respect to the profession, but.. how does this kind of thing arrived to the front page with 5 points? HN, come on, really?
by drtgh 4y ago
With all due respect to the profession, but.. how does this kind of thing arrived to the front page with 5 points? HN, come on, really?
- bheadmaster 4y agoI've seen a fair number of posts arriving to the front page with ~5 points. One element could be the timing - if 5 points appear in the first, say, 15 minutes, it might be enough to raise it to the front page? Maybe there's an element of randomness, too. Dunno. I suppose HN algorithms are secret for a reason - if they were revealed, they could be optimized for.
- bombcar 4y agoThe HN algorithm picks posts from the new pool and puts them on the front page for a short time to see if it gets traction. This has been explained somewhere but I don't have the link.
- crazygringo 4y agoA lot of articles pop onto the front page after just 5–7 votes. I think it has something to do with the upvoters not being correlated and the votes all coming quickly together. But then it needs more votes in a short window to stay. If it doesn't get them, it drops off as quickly as it came. So this seems to be HN working as usual.
- elvis70 4y agoIt seems that the link was placed in the second-chance pool by a moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool What's the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308