How Hacker News ranking algorithm works - amix.dkIn this post I'll try to explain how Hacker News ranking algorithm works and how you can reuse it in your own applications. It's a very simple ranking algorithm and works surprising well when you want to highlight hot or new stuff. Digging into news.arc code Hacker News is implemented in Arc, a Lisp dialect coded by Paul Graham. Hacker News is opensource and the code can be found at arclanguage.or
