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Has the HN placement algorithm changed? This is #19 on the homepage with 1 point. It doesn't seem to be from the second chance pool but I may be wrong there.

Would be a cool change if it's something that lets more new submissions get a chance on the homepage

I've been noticing a lot of the topics on the front page have fewer comments than they used to (kind of disappointing to be honest). So yeah maybe the algo did change.

As I write this there are seven topics that have five or fewer comments.

If I have plenty of time I might read articles like these. But if I'm pressed for time I'll pick stories whose subject is interesting and that have a lot of comments, using # comments as a quick proxy for whether the HN community has been engaged with the subject and might have generated some useful discussion.

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