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Can't find a reference for this at the moment, but I think PG has since modified the HN ranking code a bit to put interesting stuff at the top. (This is since his last arc dump, so I don't know exactly what it is.)

Also, I think the situation on HN is quite different from reddit because vote totals aren't shown here anymore. It's not clear that you necessarily want to use the same ranking system as on reddit, where current vote counts affect how people vote in the future.