LIT is sorting all items on SN by recent zaps.^[1]

So, if a post that was published a year ago gets a 1000 sat zap just now, it will show up on LIT above a post that was just published an hour ago, but only got 500 sats in zaps.

The hope is that LIT does a better job of surfacing what stackers are actually talking about and zapping and interacting with, regardless of when it was published.

1. it is a little more complicated than this as LIT takes into account all sats invested in a post but halves their weight every four hours after the investment occurred. So: post in ~privacy where the posting fee is 500 sats and it counts the same for ranking in LIT as getting a 500 sat zap. However after four hours, it only counts as 250 sats as far as LIT is concerned. A new post in ~AskSN (posting fee of 100 sats) will still be ranked lower than the older ~privacy post. But if the ~AskSN post gets a 200 sat zap, it will rise to a higher rank in LIT than the ~privacy post. ↩

LIT allows your post from 2024 onto the front page because it was zapped today.

Car also had an issue with the naming. Imagine it's just a rename of HOT because that's what it is.