HN is more like a "message board". Beyond the simple "flag" and "upvote" mechanism, there doesn't appear to be any algorithm customized to each user. As a resul

HN is more like a "message board". Beyond the simple "flag" and "upvote" mechanism, there doesn't appear to be any algorithm customized to each user. As a result, very high quality content tends to populate the top of the home page. I personally enjoy filtering by New. A lot of original authors post their work and it's fun to interact directly with them, which is more difficult to do once a post has hundreds of comments.