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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: 0.412s | 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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dang ◴[13 May 23 21:16 UTC] No.35932820[source]▶
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)

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1. everybodyknows ◴[15 May 23 23:51 UTC] No.35956129[source]▶
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

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2. dang ◴[16 May 23 02:03 UTC] No.35957015[source]▶
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...