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> it doesn't give a detailed explanation (we can't do that without publishing our code)

Precisely why would publishing (the relevant part of) the code be a problem? Twitter did it just a few days ago, and they aren't even known as an information hub of the open source world, plus they face a lot more public scrutiny for everything they do, to put it mildly.

>>p-e-w+(OP)
I'm not sure you've got an apples-to-apples comparison there (between what Twitter published and what I was just talking about).

Either way, though, I don't want to publish that part of our code for two reasons: I fear that it would make HN easier to game/mainpulate, and I fear that it would increase the number of objections we have to deal with. It's not that I mind dealing with objections in principle, but a 10x increase would bury me.