From your comment, I was curious whether they were pulling the results from Algolia behind the scenes. The result sets for a given day look to be pretty different with Algolia being ordered by points purely.
Front [0]
(92 stories hit the front page)
Top 10:
1. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
2. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
3. Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 3: Inside the disk drive
4. Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity
5. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations
6. Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
7. Yoshi (YC S16) launches “set it and forget it” vehicle re-fueling service in SF
8. A Glimpse into the Apollo Guidance Computer
9. Errol Morris's Secret Weapon for Unsettling Interviews: The Interrotron
10. Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
Algolia [1]
(885 stories)
Top 10:
1. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
2. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
3. Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
4. How we're scammed into eating phony food
5. Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
6. Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta
7. Elixir 1.3.1 released
8. Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
9. A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
10. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations
Note: The Algolia date picker doesn't seem to like you starting and ending on the same day. It changes start date to the day before, so perhaps this is including a little more than one day of data.
Front [0]
(92 stories hit the front page)
Top 10:
Algolia [1](885 stories)
Top 10:
Note: The Algolia date picker doesn't seem to like you starting and ending on the same day. It changes start date to the day before, so perhaps this is including a little more than one day of data.[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-07-11
[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...