Use of true clock time in these formulas penalizes posts that are submitted at low-traffic times.
Using a virtual clock, such as a tick count based on traffic (number of other submissions, votes, pageviews, etc.), could adjust for this.
Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
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#12the delicious one is wrong.
Thanks for reading the post. What do you think is wrong with the del.icio.us formula?
You just demonstrated one of the coolest things about posting at news.yc. You never know who you're gonna run into. Even when they're replying directly to you.
edit: Hint, click his name...
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for reading the post. What do you think is wrong with the del.icio.us formula?
You just demonstrated one of the coolest things about posting at news.yc. You never know who you're gonna run into. Even when they're replying directly to you. edit: Hint, click his name...
:)
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#14Not to be an ass but how hard can they be anyway? Its not a formula like a^2 + b^2 = c^2
it is just some variables that they tweaked until they fit.
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#15For reddit, this is the public algo released with their code. I think we should not assume that's the algo they use on reddit.com. Think about it: they could easily release a basic algo and keep the good one for their own internal use.
At the very least, even reddit's blog post announcement of the code mentioned they're not open sourcing the spam detection code. Surely that's part of the ranking algo in that it determines if a submission gets ranked or not.
For the SU one, I think there is more to the story, but that's for another post...
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#16Yippee! Thats great. But how did u findout delicious's and stumbleupon's? By reverse engineering technique... like... Were these found out(or guess-worked) by constantly keeping track of the ranking of content? Joshu, i think the del.icio.us formula is right, or they might just be using a different time constraint than 1 hour(maybe 2hrs or anything else). Because to findout what's popular they dont require any comple…
Umm, yeah. To make it more clear, when you refer to 'they' in your comment, you are actually talking about Joshu!
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#17Use of true clock time in these formulas penalizes posts that are submitted at low-traffic times. Using a virtual clock, such as a tick count based on traffic (number of other submissions, votes, pageviews, etc.), could adjust for this.
that's an interesting idea!
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#18Re: Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
#19These are not the algorithms but an overview of the formulas.
For example the HN algorithm is outlined in several places e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704 and on the pg Arc site, and the reddit algorithms is
def hot(ups, downs, date):
s = score(ups, downs)
order = log(max(abs(s), 1), 10)
sign = 1 if s > 0 else -1 if s Re: Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
#20It would be nice to have a less misleading title. I clicked to find out what Digg's algorithm is.
Wait - the title doesn't include Digg, so how exactly is it misleading? Maybe you're being sarcastic and my sarcasm detector just isn't well-tuned.
The title was edited, apparently. When I clicked, it said Digg, and the article still has a section on Digg.