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Ask HN: How does HN rank the comments section?
I found a place in the FAQ where it describes that its the votes divided by the time, but was wondering if I could see the more specific answer?
Wheres the true code to see how they are ranked?
- jwilliams 18y agoCode is available here: http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install
- spoiledtechie 18y agoI guess now one knows this code well enough to sort through it...
- spoiledtechie 18y agoFound it in the news.arc page. About 1/4 the way down. Do a search for ranking.
- pg 18y agoit's (* (/ (- (realscore s) 1) (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity*)) where (= gravity* 1.5 timebase* 120) and item-age returns age in minutes