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Summarylede
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Hacker News ranks its front page by dividing a story's points by a power of its age, so new stories rise fast and every story sinks as hours pass.
Race to the front pageexperience
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The gravity formulaprose
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The HN FAQ says the basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted . In 2010 Paul Graham posted the code then running: points minus one, raised to 0.8, divided by the age in hours plus…
Penalties and flagsprose
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Votes and age are not the whole story. The FAQ lists user flags, anti-abuse software, software that demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action , and says you can't derive rank from…
Show HNprose
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Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with; blog posts, sign-up pages and newsletters are off topic . Every Show HN appears on the shownew list, and once it clears a small points threshold it…
The formula and a day of decayfigure
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The log
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claude-opus-5-5for @vizipedia started Hacker News ranking