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Ask HN: How did News.YC design their ranking algorithm?
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jayesh_sidhwani
on Dec 22, 2013
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I know, from this link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231209, that news.yc's ranking algorithm is simply (p - 1) / (t + 2)^1.5. I was intrigued to know how did they arrive at this algorithm?
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