Can anyone remember the news.yc ranking algorithm?

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I'm building a clone just to learn more Rails (not going to release it) and I was looking for the algorithm that pg posted a while ago, but can't find it. Does anyone remember what it was or where I could find it?

Thanks a lot.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704

Thanks for (actually) answering the question.

What search keywords did you use or did you have this bookmarked? I'm curious because I tried and couldn't figure out what keywords to use.

Nothing too sophisticated -- the 18th result on this list had a link to it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=algorithm+site%3Anews.ycombin...

I highly recommend setting your Google preferences to return 20+ results so results like this aren't hidden behind a second page (I use 50).

You could always just come up w/ your own ranking algorithm. It shouldn't affect the structure of your app at all.

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