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Looks like the original ranking formula as announced at...

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12may11

...was tweaked a bit: now starting at #6 rather than #4; now descending one position every 8 minutes rather than every 15 minutes.

(I'm surprised they don't stay for a full day; that would seem a reasonable way to reach anyone who visits at least once daily.)

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I'm pretty sure companies would pay handsomly to be featured for 150 minutes on the HN frontpage :) It's huge exposure, so I wouldn't complain :)

I agree. We hired our frontend engineer through HN. And it was surely not a dedicated link like the ones YC companies get to post but one of those monthly job boards =)

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