Looks algorithmic to me. Reverse-chronological with upvote threshold(?), where upvotes are correlated with sort rank on vanilla HN.

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VCFundedGenYer a day ago | parent [-]

Again, not a thing if you are on the site I mentioned.

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Waterluvian a day ago | parent | next [-]

There’s clearly decision-making going on because it’s not listing most HN posts. How is it deciding what not to show?

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LastTrain a day ago | parent [-]

Not to mention HN posts don’t spontaneously emerge out of the randomness of the cosmos.

	▲	Waterluvian a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sure they do. Just with extra steps. Remember that thing Carl Sagan told us: “if you want to complain about AI from scratch you must first invent the universe.”

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tptacek a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If there's a vote threshold, it's still profoundly influenced by the HN algorithm, because front page exposure is the principal component in how many votes a story gets.

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Retr0id a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Saying it a second time doesn't make it any more true.