As someone who submitted yesterday [1], I&#x27;d think we need to give new applications more days to catch up with early applications before making a decision.<p>Also, I think in order to give more reliability to the HN votes and ranking we need to find a way to give a similar exposure to all the applications, this would make up for other bias like time of submission.<p>One idea is to feature a subset of the applications in the front-page for a given amount of time. (not sure if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re trying to do with  &#x2F;applyrand)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11586948" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11586948</a>