How does hacker news work?

1 pointsdavid20168y ago1 comments

How do they choose what articles to show? Is it a manual process where they keep surfing the web for recent news?

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Anyone is allowed to submit articles. It shows up on new, and then there's a custom algorithm that puts it in the "top of the list."

A good example is reddit.

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1 pointsdavid20168y ago1 comments

How do they choose what articles to show? Is it a manual process where they keep surfing the web for recent news?

Anyone is allowed to submit articles. It shows up on new, and then there's a custom algorithm that puts it in the "top of the list."

A good example is reddit.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse