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Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

4 points by jzworkman ↗ HN
I was browsing HN today, and I wasnt logged in(dont know if this is the cause) and when I got to the 5th page, I started seeing posts from many days ago. I took a screen shot of the offending posts: http://i.imgur.com/yZymU.png

Has anyone else seen this before?

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tjr
A couple weeks ago I saw a post on the first or second page that had been from some weeks prior.
jzworkman
Yea I just think it is weird the algortihm is picking up an article from over 100 days ago, and showing up in the top 125 posts.
koopajah
The discussion about rubymotion is currently #118 (I'm logged) and "PHP the right way" is #114. But what do you find surprising in this? The main page of HN features the most popular threads and I guess some of these threads have been referenced somewhere else and upvoted by people who did not see it before? At least I'm sure that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568 has been referenced recently in another popular (meaning front-page) submission : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412721
jzworkman
I was just surprised that all of the posts #110-120 are from between 7 and 111 days ago. I have usually not seen that old of posts breaking the top 125 like that(I thought the algorithm was supposed to target new posts)
mrgreenfur
Yeah seems to happen all the time once you get a few pages deep.