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It only looks at articles that are in memory. You'll notice that the Steve Jobs article has made it there now that people have been opening it.

• Achshar 14y ago
  I see, that makes sense, but why is it so? Aren't the posts stored in a database somewhere? How does it work?
• iamben 14y ago
  Gotcha, good knowledge - thanks!
• arbuge 14y ago
  Indeed... my original comment looks kind of dumb now. Odd algorithm though, if I may say so.