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How is it determined what posts reach the first page?

I visit hacker news so that I can avoid current affairs news, but all too often non "hacker" stories appear on the feed and it feels like they shouldn't have made it out of New

>>ChrisR+(OP)
It's just what's described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: upvotes, time, software actions, and moderator actions.

There's no easy way to distinguish between "hacker" and "non hacker" stories because different people evaluate these expressions completely differently.