Hacker News with Generative AI: Ranking Algorithms

Yakread's Ranking Algorithm (obryant.dev)
Continuing the Yakread rewrite, last weekend I rewrote the part of Yakread's ranking algorithm that merges your newsletter/RSS subscriptions and your bookmarked articles into a single personalized feed.

Personalization, Ranking Algorithms, RSS, Newsletters, Web Development

68 points by jacobobryant 18 days ago | 13 comments

How not to sort by average rating (2009) (evanmiller.org)
PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by.

Web Development, User Experience, Ranking Algorithms

77 points by notracks 183 days ago | 25 comments