Comment on How Hacker News ranking algorithm worksComments−callmeed15ySo, if you're implementing this in a framework like Django or Rails, can you get a result set in this order directly from a query? Or do you have to query then sort?−endtime15yIn Django, you could make the ranking score a property of the model and then do query.order_by('-score').
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So, if you're implementing this in a framework like Django or Rails, can you get a result set in this order directly from a query? Or do you have to query then sort?
In Django, you could make the ranking score a property of the model and then do query.order_by('-score').