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Re:Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by consumer451 on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:52AM (#28402570)
Hmmm, maybe no "/s"? That sounds really cool, especially if users can explore each other's custom feeds. HN admins would get some useful stats on popular feeds. Hackers get to hack...

Would be an interesting experiment, maybe they've tried it before?

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Re:Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by kuroguro on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:55AM (#28402979)
Well the /s is for security implications as well as performance.

You can imagine someone writing a clever query to extract hashed passwords or something from different tables. Also with the amount of traffic HN gets the front page is probably cached - running a query for every single request sounds expensive.

It would be very cool if possible tho.

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