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Quality News - Towards a fairer ranking formula for Hacker News

17 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 9 stories, 8 comments · first 2023-02-22 · latest 2023-07-17

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  1. …the home page based more on timing and luck than the actual content of the story. Read more here: https://github.com/social-protocols/news However, we concluded that the biggest problem is false negatives -- good stories that never made…
  2. …protocols" published a new metric for Hacker News, but at that time, people didn't see the problem: https://github.com/social-protocols/news
    comment by manx · 2023-06-03 · in What deserves our attention?
  3. …published a concrete idea on how to improve the ranking algorithm by introducing a new metric: https://github.com/social-protocols/news/blob/master/README.... The metric in action: https://news.social-protocols.org/ HN Discussion:…
    comment by manx · 2023-04-10 · in Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
  4. …still looking for strategies to cheaply retain more data. If you have any ideas, please jump in: https://github.com/social-protocols/news/issues/54
  5. …The first page gets much more upvotes than the second page. There is a visible step in the data: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#upvote-share-by-ran... Once a story drops to the second page, it receives fewer upvotes and can't…
  6. …of the HN community as revealed by their upvote behavior . We talk about this more in the Readme: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme
  7. …charts and stats. - Check it out at: https://news.social-protocols.org/ In-depth explanation: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it…
  8. Links: Site: https://news.social-protocols.org/ Readme: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme Previous Blog Post: https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking... Previous Discussion:…