It looks like HN's ranking algorithm is giving a boost to submissions by new users. I submitted a perfectly fine story (shameless plug about my an emulator I wr

It looks like HN's ranking algorithm is giving a boost to submissions by new users. I submitted a perfectly fine story (shameless plug about my an emulator I wrote) that got 48 points in 9 hours and didn't make it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769498 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769498