PG posted the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 The time of the votes is not take

PG posted the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 The time of the votes is not taken into account. The time-based decay is only based on the submission time. A story with the same votes and same submission time will have the same rank regardless of when the votes occurred, all other factors being equal.