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- Anyone can post any link.

- Post then appears under "new" (a chronological list of all posts), where anyone can upvote or downvote it - and/or discuss it in the comments section.

- If the post gains any traction (by quickly accruing votes, comments, etc.), it will then show up on the main page (list of "currently trending" posts) as well.

- Increasing age of a post will cause it to go lower and lower and eventually drop out of the main page again, typically within hours.

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Typically any more or less big tech news will make it to the main page pretty quickly. Often much faster than you'd hear about it anywhere else.

That being said, you'll definitely find a lot of stuff that isn't news as well.



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