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How the Lobsters front page works


Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion. The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works. This is it: $$\textbf{hotness} = -1 \times (\text{base} + \text{order} \times \text{sign} + \text{age})$$ $$\text{hotness} \downarrow \implies \text{rank}

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