How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

On the flipside of this argument, it kind of sucks to submit an awesomely made article [0] which details significant research on the intricacies of DAW UI requirements and have almost no discussion on it because other posts may have been gamed and thus received attention instead of the more organically submitted content.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35922858

Other posts weren’t gamed, but just more catered to this audience.

Your example is extremely obvious: I don’t know what a DAW UI is and it isn’t explained in the first sentences of the page and I don’t really bother to put more time into finding out. It doesn’t matter how in-depth the article is if it doesn’t resonate at all with most average HN users.

True, people often assume everyone knows their acronyms ...

While that's perhaps the case, I was under the impression that the HN crown was one that favored research. In this particular case, if I search for "DAW", then the Wikipedia entry is first of the results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation

Sometimes, if an article is good enough, you can message dang to see if he might put it in the second chance pool.

That article does look great — gave it an upvote if it helps.