Certainly, HN must have a bayesian classifier looking at the content of its submissions and deciding whether they are "Hacker Newsworthy". By now, the site mus

Certainly, HN must have a bayesian classifier looking at the content of its submissions and deciding whether they are "Hacker Newsworthy". By now, the site must have sizeable corpi (corpuses?) of good articles and spam links to use in such an assessment. Since this site was built by Mr Bayesian himself, it never occurred to me that it might have weak spam filtering.