At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly promotes posts.
At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly promotes posts.
That is indeed how it works
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough
Interesting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN.
Would you mind explaining to us how it works?
Great work HN team, since it’s indeed an interesting story.
I assume it was for 30 minutes in waiting with 0 votes before someone digged it out.
Mods might be amused to be described as fairly godmothers.