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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by nzjrs on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:27AM (#12208128)
Oh. Ranking here has always been mysterious and corrupt.

Do You think all those ycombinator company posts get to the front page on their own merit? Ha!

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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by mrmagooey on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:45AM (#12208191)
There's several hundred Y Combinator companies, but I don't think I've seen a commensurate number of posts to HN. You'd know if it was open slather on Y Combinator companies posting self-promotion material to HN because this post would not be at the top, it would be some launch page for a company ending in 'ly'.

I typically only notice YC companies mentioned here when it is a Techcrunch (or similar) article about them.

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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by scrollaway on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:42AM (#12208178)
It's as if a community of programmers and engineers can't understand the various weights a ranking algorithm can take into account outside of plain "2 > 1".

Stunning.

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