Firstly, here is an unofficial FAQ: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/ Here is the official

Firstly, here is an unofficial FAQ: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/ Here is the official FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Broadly, posts and comments rise with more upvotes, and sink with both downvotes and time-elapsed. There are also penalties, such as when a post has 40 points or more, but more comments than points. That's a "Flame war penalty". There are others. There's more scattered about on HN itself, just do a search for "HN Rankings": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=hn%20rankings&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=hn%20rankings&so... Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613047