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Maybe it is hidden deep in the source code (https://github.com/wting/hackernews), the problem is that Arc is basically unreadable if you're used to stuff like C/C++/Java/PHP/Assembler.

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The core concepts are in the Arc source code (which I can read, with effort, even though I'm not a programmer, because it is well commented) but as another reply has already correctly pointed out, some of the current implementation on Hacker News includes "secret sauce" algorithms that don't appear to have any public documentation. The ongoing effort here

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

is "making a conscious effort to resist decline," so that participants "don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

Is that the latest source? I didn't realise it was available but when searching HN before posting the topic I did find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964 ("Tell HN: How to find karma thresholds in the HN source code") so perhaps if things haven't changed much in the intervening 1298 days it'll still work.

It might be the meat of it, but IIRC pg has said that he tweaks key algorithms like comment ranking on his own.

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