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Re:Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by sideproject on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:54PM (#35519306)
I recently launched a tool called HN+

https://hn.plus

It's a tool where you can create your own HackerNews clone. Obviously, while working on this, I had to emulate the HN ranking algorithm. But what I found is that the algorithm actually doesn't seem to work well for a "young" forums.

I had to tweak it so that on the frontpage, the posts that are more relatively recent rises to the top over older posts of higher votes. I know these are considered in the original algorithm, but I had to tweak it.

Which made me think that the algorithm should be considering the age of the community and also how active it is.

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