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How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

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414 points muchtest | 2 comments | 13 May 23 16:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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everybodyknows ◴[13 May 23 16:45 UTC] No.35930124[source]▶
> 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.

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1. linkdd ◴[13 May 23 23:47 UTC] No.35933938[source]▶
> ... 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.

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2. kyleyeats ◴[14 May 23 00:33 UTC] No.35934226[source]▶
People used to throw a # on the end