Looks to me like they've applied some kind of heavy weighting penalty so it's already down to page 7.
I wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer the penalty. You can easily poll to get points/time for stories and then probably use that to figure out the algorithm and any penalties/boosts (an old version seems to be documented).
We didn't touch the post. It set off the flamewar detector, and rightly so. However, because of the principle I described recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045*, I'm going to turn that off now.
I wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer the penalty. You can easily poll to get points/time for stories and then probably use that to figure out the algorithm and any penalties/boosts (an old version seems to be documented).