4 ms·
I'm definitely off-topic but I think this raises an interesting idea for generating different views of HN's front-page in statistical terms. I think it would be
by mlLK 17y ago
I'm definitely off-topic but I think this raises an interesting idea for generating different views of HN's front-page in statistical terms. I think it would be cool to generate a front-page that evaluates according to a simple comparison like, select stories that users have upvoted where karma-accumulated to days-alive is greater than 1. Even more interesting, would be to generate a front-page according to some interval of values [or range of karma].
- thalur 17y agoHow about ranking by how other users who have a similar voting pattern to the current user vote on an article? So, for example, when the page is rendered for user x, each user who has upvoted an article has their vote multiplied by the similarity between their voting pattern and user x's voting pattern before sorting with the current algorithm. Each user then gets a semi-personalised view which, hopefully, is to their taste.