[kristofferR]

Things on the front page has way less votes and seems fresher (more quickly replaced) than before.

There are multiple stories on the front page right now with less than 10 votes and only one story older than 9 hours.

[JonnieCache]

The voting behavior of the users varies with time of day and day of the week.

[dang]

Some of that may be artifacts of the experiments we've been working on to make it easier for good stories to surface from /newest. If you're interested, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376064 and the links there.