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HN tries to downweight posts that get too much engagement too fast. This is described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089

After the rate of posting cools down a bit (from not being on the front page), it can bubble back up.

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thank you sooooo much for sharing this, because I've been on here for what seems like forever and never had this explained... resolves one of my bigger gripes about behaviour of the ranking algorithm, I only wish details / stories like this were more widely shared

There are a lot of features that are out there that are lightly documented / only hinted at in the "this is how it works".

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

You might also like to add the second chance pool to your pages to browse rather than just the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

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