News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/S... by crazyirish on Thursday July 17, 2008 @03:52PM (#248994)
lisp? you mean arc good sir. I'm not sure how effective a bayesian filter would be at classifying news stories as interesting/non-interesting though. Has anyone tried this?
Re:Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/S... by jcl on Thursday July 17, 2008 @05:54PM (#249135)
Yes, it looks like pg built something to recognize good/bad stories:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213951

Re:Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/S... by Hexstream on Thursday July 17, 2008 @04:36PM (#249039)
Arc is a Lisp.