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Re:Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by yzan on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:48AM (#28403433)
An obligatory link to an article by Evan Miller about ranking: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

However, to get the following requirement from the article:

> The algorithm should not produce false negatives, the community should find all high-quality content.

it might be better to estimate the upper confidence bound, like in Upper Confidence Bound bandit, rather than the lower confidence bound.

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