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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by mtmail on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:02AM (#17757961)
200+ comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by sgt101 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:22AM (#17758162)
Didn't appear as an item for me yesterday at all - something's not right about that!
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by abababba on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:56AM (#17758495)
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-08-13&p=2

55th position

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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by ddtaylor on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @11:03AM (#17758546)
Wow! I didn't know you could look at the homepage based on day. That's awesome, thanks!!
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by js2 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @11:09AM (#17758614)
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists includes that option among other lists. The story from yesterday is currently number 11 on the best list.
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by Max_Mustermann on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:08PM (#17761437)
You can also check them by order of votes with waybackhn: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2018-08-13
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by some_account on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:20AM (#17758136)
How come that is not in top items of hacker news?
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by theandrewbailey on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:40AM (#17758342)
Lots of factors go into it. Key words in titles and certain domains can drag things down.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by beat on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:51AM (#17758438)
Because the evil Google conspiracy suppressed it!
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by froogie on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:10PM (#17761444)
You say that as if xorporations didn't do this by e.g. vote manipulation in Reddit.
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by mbel on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:22AM (#17758163)
It was yesterday.
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by TACIXAT on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:23AM (#17758181)
The algorithm accounts for time.
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Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history by oinkgrr on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:18AM (#17758115)
oh, missed that.
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