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Would it be possible to use that algorithm and get the same sort of 95% confidence here given that many people can't downvote?


It would be cool if HN opened up a read API so that folks could build alternate frontends / scoring algos.


This is planned.


Cool. Looking forward to it.


Is there a resource on how much karma you need to do what on HN and what the username colors mean? I assume green is new, blue is a couple months old and grey is even older?


Not that I'm aware of. Also, I've never actually seen blue, somehow. I believe that downvoting comes in around 500 at this time.

But green is not reliably "new". It tends to be strongly correlated to newly created accounts, but I've seen weird behavior (like a child comment is marked green... whereas the comment thread was started by the same commenter in gray in the first place), which leads me to believe there's something subtler going on. I thus have no idea what the difference in color is supposed to indicate at all.




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