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Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by jshen on Monday October 11, 2010 @08:54PM (#1781882)
visit count is not trivial. A db write for every page view is heavy.
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Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by seabee on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:40PM (#1782099)
Persist it in memory, you only need periodical writes for something like that. We're not running on a $5 powweb account here.
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Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by jshen on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @11:56PM (#1789762)
Right, but then it's not trivial which was my point. It can. Be trivial and not scale, or scale and not be trivial.

I'm not sure why I get down voted for this.

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