I'm sorry your version didn't get any votes or comments. Best time to post on HN is around (say) 15:00 CET, so that Europeans will see it in the afternoon and Americans can see it with their morning coffee.

Original comment author posted this around that time. I would be surprised that if being late by 1-2h makes post's success so much worse?

EDIT: On similar note - I wonder how HN's duplicate post detection works? If post does not reach some amount of upvotes, then it does not count in the duplicate index?