This post was ranked 4th a few minutes ago and suddenly it dropped to 29th.
It currently has 10 points and was created 25 minutes ago, and is behind posts with 5 points created 35 minutes ago, anyone has an idea why this happens?
The penalty applied to this post seems really unjust. 138 points in two hours ranked 20th, in contrast with the 2nd place which has 130 points and also was posted two hours ago.
It's a cat-and-mouse game between HN and the various promotional rings, so they're always going to be cagey about how it works. Generally: post content, and then trust the site to find it. Re-post later if the site misses it. Don't do other things --- like asking your friends to upvote, or circulating HN links on other sites --- to promote an HN link.
Generally a good rule of thumb is that things you do to promote your STORY are probably fine, but things you do to promote AN HN LINK are virtually never fine.
We only promote the newsletter link, not the HN discussion. Though I have been seeing some tweets(@ExplodingAds, @offeryour and others) whenever a Neovim story is posted, could these(which often contain HN discussion links) be triggering the ring detector?
I've found that HN tends to present things with some variations.
I don't really consider the front page as a ranking as much as current suggestions. Sometimes the top post has no comments, sometimes the top is dominated by full discussions.
It builds fine for me just now on 10.10. I did have to pop in to zsh instead of fish because of `SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'` though. The font rendering looks a bit off for me but it's blazingly fast.
I was having trouble building the neovim package, but I did not realize that I did not have the latest command-line tools. Updating those fixed the issue.
I'm particularly impressed by the fact that the new TUI using libtermkey means that they can bind M- and C-S- combinations in the terminal. This is something that has really plagued emacs terminal users -- the terminal UI can't handle all the key chords that the graphical UI can, which really breaks down for some modes, org-mode in particular. It's not clear from the documentation whether M-C- combinations are handled, which would be especially useful on emacs.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 67.8 ms ] threadIt currently has 10 points and was created 25 minutes ago, and is behind posts with 5 points created 35 minutes ago, anyone has an idea why this happens?
Edit: removed joke about being an Emacs user. Must learn not to do that.
We're watched over by machines of loving grace.
It's a cat-and-mouse game between HN and the various promotional rings, so they're always going to be cagey about how it works. Generally: post content, and then trust the site to find it. Re-post later if the site misses it. Don't do other things --- like asking your friends to upvote, or circulating HN links on other sites --- to promote an HN link.
Generally a good rule of thumb is that things you do to promote your STORY are probably fine, but things you do to promote AN HN LINK are virtually never fine.
I don't really consider the front page as a ranking as much as current suggestions. Sometimes the top post has no comments, sometimes the top is dominated by full discussions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH_zb7X6mZw
edit: Actually, I spoke too soon, having trouble getting this to build. It seems the Homebrew build package has some issues at the moment.
What is failing?
[1] https://github.com/coolwanglu/neovim.as
This is pretty fun. It's using the new terminal emulator within Neovim which is mentioned in this newsletter.