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Hacker News downweights posts with a lot of comments.


OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (theverge.com) 819 points by rcchen 18 hours ago | flag | hide | 530 comments

Has been at number 2 spot for ages.

Sorry, no offense, and you're probably right somewhere along the line, but ... I'm calling horse shit on the HN algorithm. If there is one.

By your logic, or reasoning, this should have dropped off the map by now.


It’s not that simple, it’s the ratio of comments to upvotes to user flags.


I was certain it's not that simple. I'm just responding to your comment.

Perhaps the appropriate response then is: fck the users involved.




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