News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information. Parent comment

Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by ars on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:40AM (#6632867)
It's not total votes that counts, but rather votes per time. So two posts of the same age and same vote count could be in different places if one has recent votes and the other older votes.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by dangrossman on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:06AM (#6632970)
PG posted the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

The time of the votes is not taken into account. The time-based decay is only based on the submission time. A story with the same votes and same submission time will have the same rank regardless of when the votes occurred, all other factors being equal.

[ Parent | on HN ]