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📣 zepearl

Did HN's page rankings become more extreme?


Sorry, the usual question... :P

This morning I read the post "The Rust Performance Book (2020)" and when I wanted to upvote it 10 hours later I had to go to page #4 (ranked currently #108 with 184 votes "20 hours ago") => finding it on page #4 was weird for me (I would have never found that precious post if I would have checked HN only this evening).

The usual reply to my kind of question is "click on 'past' to see a kind-of-better ranking" but after having done that exactly >now< I see for example:

- at position #41 "Logo and Learning (2015)" (63 points, 3 days ago, 26 comments) and...

- at position #42 "America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach" ( 270 points, 1 day ago, 569 comments) - btw. I read this and for me it wasn't great but still interesting, so in the end I liked it, at least 10000 times more than "logo and learning" (which I glanced over).

I don't like the current ranking :(


  👤 gus_massa Accepted Answer ✓
You can try with https://news.ycombinator.com/best that orders with more weight in points and less weight in freshness.

And in the oposite direction, also https://news.ycombinator.com/newest that is the stream of new post. More are bad, but it's important to discover the good one and upvote them.