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> How are stories ranked? > The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html h
by jjice 1y ago
> How are stories ranked?
> 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
- owebmaster 1y agoThat is not the case for this one. And it doesn't even have Ask HN in the title.
- jjice 1y agoBut it was a new post with a few votes? That’s the ratio of time to votes mag have been very high ranking for a moment. As for the lack of ask hn, I don’t know how it’s decided, but it’s not required for something to be considered one (common case on the ask page)
- owebmaster 1y agoit had 2 points when I added the comment and it is amazing that this post is still in the front page of Ask HN with plenty of real Ask HN posted[1] 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=ask%20hn&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...