32 points theanonymousone 1 hour ago 9 comments
VCFundedGenYer 38 minutes ago | parent
This falls apart completely if you’re like me and only see the list presented on brutalist.report which is strictly chronological and with zero algorithms.
perching_aix 33 minutes ago | parent
Indeed, if you go out of your way to circumvent automatic story ranking, the particularities of automatic story ranking no longer affect you...
A capability available without visiting any third party sites, by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
I just hope you don't believe that somehow this magically allows you to escape bias. A (reverse) chronological sort is still a sort.
Retr0id 19 minutes ago | parent
Looks algorithmic to me. Reverse-chronological with upvote threshold(?), where upvotes are correlated with sort rank on vanilla HN.
VCFundedGenYer 16 minutes ago | parent
Again, not a thing if you are on the site I mentioned.
tptacek 14 minutes ago | parent
If there's a vote threshold, it's still profoundly influenced by the HN algorithm, because front page exposure is the principal component in how many votes a story gets.
Waterluvian 12 minutes ago | parent
There’s clearly decision-making going on because it’s not listing most HN posts. How is it deciding what not to show?
Retr0id 8 minutes ago | parent
Saying it a second time doesn't make it any more true.
oblio 11 minutes ago | parent
That site's interesting, but it would be super helpful with some summaries of the stories and maybe of the comments. Though I imagine that would make it a LOT more expensive to host.
tptacek 13 minutes ago | parent
Presumably this has gotten way, way more complicated in the last 13 years.