How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

> You can post multiple times: HN understands that quality posts can go unnoticed, ...

Yes, anecdata: A number of my own highest-quality finds have sink with barely a ripple on the "new" page.

> ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times.

Most legit posters have better uses for their remaining lifetime minutes of brain activity than to game HN in such a tedious exercise.

Various software mitigations to recover credit for otherwise lost quality posts occur to me, but the coding effort looks substantial.

What are some of the high-quality finds that sank without a trace?

Maybe we could send repost invites to put them in the second-chance pool! (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)

> ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times.

I don't even understand how that's possible. Every time I tried to post a link that was already posted (by me or someone else), it redirected me to the original post (and upvoted it if I wasn't the author).

After observing that behavior 2 or 3 times, I assumed HN had some kind of deduplication system.

People used to throw a # on the end

Thanks for asking -- among the more recent I'd suggest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099

Thanks! Those are more topical submissions than we would normally put in the second-chance pool. For that we're looking for more out-of-the-way stories, less in the flow of news or current affairs and of a little more deeper interest.

The other thing about some of those submissions is that they're a bit on the political side—not so much as to be off topic for HN (there's inevitably some political overlap [1]) but again, not the sort of quieter/curious story that we're looking to augment.

I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 has more of those qualities though, so I've sent you a repost invite for it :)

[1] ;https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...