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HN is open source. Do you want to know how posts rise to the top? Go read the code. Do you want to know how Facebook determines what content you see? You could
by cryptoz 13y ago
HN is open source. Do you want to know how posts rise to the top? Go read the code. Do you want to know how Facebook determines what content you see? You could be a criminal, a felon, if you try to find out their algorithms (how do you do that, hack their servers?).
I'm not the OP, but that might be the direction the original logic was going.
- bluetidepro 13y agoAh, okay. I suppose I mis-read what he meant by that statement. I see what the OP might mean now when you bring up the Facebook logic on what content you see, and that side of things. I was thinking more in terms of "Upvotes/Likes".
- hawkharris 13y agoYeah, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks for helping to clarify.
- switz 13y agoHN is not open source. It may have been at one time, but that ship has long sailed. We have no idea what code may have been changed, and how things are weighted differently. Presumably, there's a reason Paul no longer wants it to be open source.
- cryptoz 13y agoHm, interesting. I was referring to the old news.arc it seems, I didn't realize times had changed. Thanks.