There’s clearly decision-making going on because it’s not listing most HN posts. How is it deciding what not to show?
Not to mention HN posts don’t spontaneously emerge out of the randomness of the cosmos.
Sure they do. Just with extra steps.
Remember that thing Carl Sagan told us: “if you want to complain about AI from
scratch you must first invent the universe.”
If there's a vote threshold, it's still profoundly influenced by the HN algorithm, because front page exposure is the principal component in how many votes a story gets.
Saying it a second time doesn't make it any more true.