Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories

jwarden 15 points 2 comments September 13, 2026
news.social-protocols.org · View on Hacker News

This page shows which stories have the heaviest penalty applied to their Hacker News rank -- stories that rank lower than they should given their raw HN ranking formula.

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yodon

So, maybe it's a huge conspiracy, or, alternatively, maybe it's a case of a person who attempted to reverse engineer the HN ranking algorithm missing a couple terms in the equation. Everyone can apply their own form of Occam's Razor. Some will conclude conspiracy, others, missed second and third order terms.

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