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How does this hit the top 5 of the front page with no comments and 4 points? Regarding the link, quite a good PR strategy, but not sure it's very interesting d

How does this hit the top 5 of the front page with no comments and 4 points? Regarding the link, quite a good PR strategy, but not sure it's very interesting discussion for a tech site?

DoctorOW 3y ago
> The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- detrites 3y ago
  So if someone has four sock-puppet accounts they can get in the top 5?
  - intev 3y ago
    For an extremely short period of time so it's pretty meaningless.