Re:The Native Client Proving Ground (Chrome)
by DanBC on Sunday November 15, 2015 @08:43AM
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They're trying some experiments to make good content surface.
They tried sending an email asking people to repost. Now they adjust the time stamp and apply a small (1 extra point?) bonus.
Re:The Native Client Proving Ground (Chrome)
by denniskane on Sunday November 15, 2015 @08:53AM
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I wonder how this works, though. I assume there is not any kind of automated system on the backend of HN trying to figure out what is "good content" and what isn't.
Re:The Native Client Proving Ground (Chrome)
by AdmiralAsshat on Sunday November 15, 2015 @10:15AM
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HN's algorithms make no sense to me, either. I submitted this story the other day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10561347
It goes nowhere. Someone with higher karma submits the exact same article with the exact same headline about two hours later, and it winds up on the front page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207
Re:The Native Client Proving Ground (Chrome)
by denniskane on Sunday November 15, 2015 @10:28AM
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The fact that they use their own karma system to automatically rank certain trusted users who might have done things like invent entire programming languages or started up 10 billion dollar companies ahead of random "asshats" who hang around HN is not very surprising in my opinion ;)
(edit: Whoever downvoted this, I was responding to someone who goes by the name AdmiralAsshat, and I was obviously joking. But that might just be HN automatically downvoting people for using words like asshat. In which case, HN is being a pure asshat.)
(Hi Mom!)
About the "Why chrome?" page. I needed to put something there to explain why you need to use Chrome to get any use out of the site. I realize anything that I put there will only wind up as flame bait, so I tried to make it as "politically acceptable" as possible. The bottom line is that I couldn't care less about those political arguments. To me, the web will always be more about technical merit than anything else. Back in the "bad old days" of the original browser wars, Mozilla was at the forefront of pushing the technical boundaries of the web. Not so much anymore. Such is life.
But don't let that stop anyone from engaging in an old-fashioned flame fest. Anything that gets this to the front page of HN is a-okay with me :)