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by gus_massa 4679 days ago
In HN they don't float. They go down slowly in a deterministic way. (Perhaps the details of the algoritm have changed a little.) From http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12may11 :

> Now instead of being ranked by points, jobs simply start at position 4 and slide down the page at 4 positions per hour.