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I'm not sure what's happening with the HN algorithm, but these anti-Israel, non-technology-related posts keep making the front page while e.g. https://www.micro
by rendall 2y ago
I'm not sure what's happening with the HN algorithm, but these anti-Israel, non-technology-related posts keep making the front page while e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/intelligence-reports/iran-surges-cyber-enabled-influence-operations-in-support-of-hamas https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/in... does not
runarberg's comments are just a symptom of a deeper problem, dang
- rcpt 2y agoThe algorithm is public https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
- rendall 2y agoThat is a 14 year old HN post linking to a dead article, the comments on which say things like > This is not the 'hacker news' ranking algorithm, this is the ranking algorithm distributed with 'ARC', which is the basis for the HN algorithm, but definitely not equal to it. The biggest missing ingredients are flagged posts dropping off quicker and posts that contain no URL dropping off quicker but there are quite a few other subtle tweaks. Not really "public".