What algorithm does news.YC use to filter spam?

Humans have too much compassion. We need cold, hard algorithms! Indiscriminating, zero-tolerant machines! ;)

downvotes on articles might help... There are a bunch of posts from an adsense farm that I'd like to flag/downvote.

Make sure and post this comment in the "Features you want" section if you haven't already. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363

really? which ones?

can't speak for joshwa, but I thought this one was spammy. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1040

Nice. A network of hierarchical bayes inference machines without a line of code.

I heard a rumour that each instance is 6MB of source code, alone!

:)

Ah- I looked it up. It's better than XP anyway http://tmsoft.com/article-genome.html

#include <meatrank.h>