As long as the desire for excellent content outweighs the desire for growth and the users vote down irrelevant stories, then we are good to go.
Maybe PG will share it with us or someone has recently hit the magic number?
(= gravity* 1.4 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1)
(def frontpage-rank (s (o gravity gravity*))
(/ (- (realscore s) 1)
(expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity)))
http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/news.arc