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1 point by gimondarake 5092 days ago | link | parent

Hello evanmurphy,

First of all, thank you very much for your reply!

To be honest, I am completely new to Arc and news.arc. I thought building a Hacker-News like forum with news.arc would be faster, but maybe I should be focusing on what I know and build with the languages that I actually know. Is it possible to reverse-engineer? news.arc, because I will probably have a bumpy ride to program "ranking algorithm" like the one used in news.arc (Hacker News).



2 points by rocketnia 5091 days ago | link

Hacker News's ranking algorithm isn't public, is it?

At least, it probably isn't in our version of news.arc. As Paul Graham says at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12468, "I should release a new version though. News.arc is greatly improved since the last release." (I assume the ranking algorithm wouldn't escape scrutiny....)

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3 points by kens 5087 days ago | link

I've written up a detailed analysis of the published parts of the news.arc ranking algorithm: http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht...

I noticed that a few pieces of the algorithm were not released, and the algorithm has surely changed since arc3.1, but the published code explains at least the overall behavior of Hacker News ranking.

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