Will start to experiment with "Futureland News" today.
Vin took HackerNews as an example so I started to inspect the site and was able to find the ranking algorithm they were using 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417
This seemed a little too complex for now, so I simplified it like this:
function getRanking(votes, hours, gravity = 1.8) {
return (votes - 1) / Math.pow(hours + 2, gravity)
}