Most Penalized HN Stories
Details
- External ID
- 49678711
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Most Penalized HN Stories
- Website domain
- social-protocols.org
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7344497607655502
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
This page shows which stories have the heaviest penalty applied to their Hacker News rank -- stories that rank lower than they should given their raw HN ranking formula.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news moderation tracking tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Scraping Hacker News front page rankings via the Firebase API and comparing observed ranks against the known HN gravity formula is straightforward script/dashboard work.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Reverse engineering may miss anti-flamewar or flag penalties in algorithm
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 · hn · 2026-01-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HN Hall of Fame · hn · 2026-07-22 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I analyzed 297k HN posts · hn · 2025-12-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HN Game Stories · hn · 2026-06-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- How much of Hacker News is about AI? · hn · 2026-08-26 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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