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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

HN #49,770,293 | submitted 2026-09-19 21:30 UTC | righto.com

124 observationsby theanonymousone
191 points
Latest score
101 comments
Latest comments
+190
Score change

Rank history is not tracked yet in the current dataset, so this first slice focuses on score and comment movement.

Score

Range 1 to 191
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Comments

Range 0 to 101
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Observation times are irregular and reflect when the tracker refreshed this story.

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