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How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers Hacker News ranking: the gravity formula, controversy penalties after ~40 comments, title/domain penalties (including historical NSA demotion), and how ~20% of front-page stories are tweaked.
15 min · 3,547 words
Smart people don't think others are stupid
Derek Sivers argues that calling others stupid is itself unsmart: there are no smart or stupid people, only people being smart or stupid, and being smart means thinking things through and trying to find the real reasons people behave as they do.
1 min · 169 words