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Ask HN: Has the HN front-page ranking algorithm changed?
It seems the ranking algorithm for HN has changed. I've been noticing submissions with as little as 8-9pts (~2 comments) submitted over _24 hours ago_ often showing up in top 10. In the past age of submission definitely had a much larger effect on the rank of a submission.
Note: As of now (3:20pm EST) the current #1/2 submission (Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip) was submitted over 24 hours ago with only 15 pts.
- minimaxir 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157788
- ramoq 12y agoInteresting, but how do they decide which posts to resurface? manually? I hope not, that would introduce bias
- dang 12y agoIt's currently a mixture of automated and manual effort. That's what we mean by "experimenting". The goal is to automate as much as we can, not to eliminate bias—I doubt that's possible, or even well-defined—but to eliminate work.