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Url changed from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-12/dell-said-..., now that the deal is confirmed.

We've also rolled back the time decay on this post as a way not to fragment the threads, since submissions about this are coming in by the dozen.

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Out of curiosity how often do you tweak the time decay of a given post? Also do some posts have different time decays based on the content (eg. Who's Hiring? vs YC job post vs standard post)?

It's nothing fancy. We just alter an internal timestamp.

Yes: job ads have their own time decay algorithm that starts them out at #6 or so and steadily lowers them over about 3 hours. There are other switches that cause some posts (e.g. stories without URLs) to decline faster, but I think they all work on other variables than time.

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