Samsung Acquires Joyent

Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by markatkinson on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:13AM (#11916211)

You could start a whole separate website of just "Best HN comments".

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by cloakandswagger on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:25AM (#11916293)

There's no need for a separate website, HN already provides a collection of best comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cloakandswagger

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by planteen on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:31AM (#11916347)

I see what you did there

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by ojbyrne on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:03AM (#11916597)

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by tehwalrus on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:48AM (#11916892)

That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by exolymph on Thursday June 16, 2016 @12:31PM (#11917175)

Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.

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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by bkanber on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:23PM (#11917527)

My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.

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