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saagarjha on Oct 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open secrets about Hacker News

It's upvotes with some sort of recency bias so that newly posted comments get a few minutes near the top of the thread to be seen.

polote on Oct 28, 2021 [–]

The sum of upvotes of the comments which replied to you are probably also into the score

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