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		ChrisRR on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon How is it determined what posts reach the first page? I visit hacker news so that I can avoid current affairs news, but all too often non "hacker" stories appear on the feed and it feels like they shouldn't have made it out of New

dang on April 6, 2023 [–]

It's just what's described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: upvotes, time, software actions, and moderator actions.

There's no easy way to distinguish between "hacker" and "non hacker" stories because different people evaluate these expressions completely differently.

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