hacker-news

Voting on Hacker News stories programmatically?

I decided to write an app like: http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/ but for Android devices, my idea will use a web application backend (because I rather code in Python and for the web than completely in Java for Android devices). What I have right now implemented is something like this: $ curl -i http://localhost:8080/stories.json?p...

How to update content popularity scoring such as Hacker News algorithm?

I'm using a customized version of Hacker News popularity algorithm for my social site (items with a number of likes and comments). The algorithm works perfectly but I don't know how to update item scorings correctly (I'm storing the score in item model as meta data). Now I'm just updating scores on every new like and comment for items ...