# Ranking News Items With Upvotes

DevFeed: [Ranking News Items With Upvotes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ranking-news-items-with-upvotes-37897.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-news-items-with-upvotes.html>)

Author: Evan Miller

Published: 2015-07-14T19:15:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Evan Miller](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/evan-miller.md>)

Topics: [recommendation systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/recommendation-systems.md>), [Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reddit.md>)

Tags: [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reddit.md>)

## AI overview

Evan Miller derives a ranking formula for social news items when users can upvote but not downvote. The method estimates expected utility from a story's age and upvote count, and shows that rankings can be computed without knowing the site's total user count.

## Source excerpt

Ranking News Items With Upvotes -- A formula for social news websites.