This is sort of funny, because one of the differences I can see is that this post is not on the frontpage of the "Classic" site right now.. How did you get here? :)

And yes, if someone can elucidate what HN Classic is, that would be cool. I assume it uses some older ranking algorithm that has since been swapped out?

It only counts votes from users registered prior to 2008. See the following link to this and other undocumented "features" of HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

It's pretty funny in context of the comment pg made on its release thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607285

I'd still agree.

What is HN Classic? Never heard of a such a thing. Google Search doesn't turn anything up.

It's a copy of the front page, but it uses the old algorithm and only counts votes from user accounts that are older than 2008-02-13. See here, for example: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

Amazing! Thanks for the documentation link!

Mind explaining what this is?