News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on twitter/the-algorithm. Parent comment

Re:twitter/the-algorithm by krapp on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:29PM (#31160902)
So then "open sourcing the algorithm" likely means opens sourcing the entire Twitter codebase?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:twitter/the-algorithm by baryphonic on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:42PM (#31161068)
At this point, what harm would that do to Twitter? The company's tech has been stagnant for years, and the only real features recently have been attempts to exploit Twitter's network effects to ape Clubhouse & Substack. (Seems successful for the former, kind of a failure for the latter.)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:twitter/the-algorithm by stjohnswarts on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:59PM (#31161923)
do we know? has any angy ex-twitter engineer revealed the secret sauce to the world?
[ Parent | on HN ]