Ask HN: Hacker news clone script in Ruby?

Check the source code of lamernews:

You may find some inspiration there ...

I bookmarked these articles when I was trying to search for algorithms to implement in a news website that I wanted to develop as a side project. But I haven't taken a closer look at them yet. Hope these help.

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 - HN http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 - Reddit

http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

This might be a good start. Doesn't really take time into account, but I don't see that part being too hard to add.