How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

I don't see this post as "hacking" the HN, but in the same vein as the famous "Mission ... accomplished" comic from xkcd[0].

I wish more people produced content like the ones they've mentioned (about an interesting, current topic, with their own take).

[0]: https://xkcd.com/810/

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 ...