How Hacker News ranking algorithm works

Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by zackattack on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:25PM (#1782073)

I would prefer PHP but seconded

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Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by sstrudeau on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:56PM (#1782136)

This is pretty trivial but sure, something like:

  function calculate_score($votes, $item_hour_age, $gravity=1.8) {
    return ($votes - 1) / pow(($item_hour_age+2), $gravity);
  }

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Re:How Hacker News ranking algorithm works by mkramlich on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:51AM (#1782550)

it's interested to see such a direction comparison of PHP to Python. PHP is very similar to the Python except with more syntax noise. :) And probably worse docs. And worse namespacing, etc. ;)

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