HN's story ranking system is undisclosed to prevent startups and/or VCs from gaming things AFAIK, but I'm wondering if it pushes things up based on time of day.
Alternatively, maybe the people who check /new are only around at certain times.
In any case, I'm definitely checking /new a lot more myself. Most of the things I've posted haven't "stuck" either, I realize just how many people this seems to be hitting.
That is an incredibly good point, I certainly wasn't thinking clearly while I was figuring that out, hah
I remember seeing someone do some data analysis of all of HN and noted that there was a certain time of day that always seemed to be consistently upvoted the most. I think I was overextrapolating that data, especially considering I've no idea what the article was called now so I couldn't review it.
HN's story ranking system is undisclosed to prevent startups and/or VCs from gaming things AFAIK, but I'm wondering if it pushes things up based on time of day.
Alternatively, maybe the people who check /new are only around at certain times.
In any case, I'm definitely checking /new a lot more myself. Most of the things I've posted haven't "stuck" either, I realize just how many people this seems to be hitting.