On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

Replied to 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page by Herbert Lui (herbertlui.net) A good article can hit the front page with none of these tactics. But executing all of them perfectly won’t save an article that isn’t any good. I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say with certainty that I never employed any of Mr. Lui’s recommendations or things not to do. I also never submitted any of my own articles to Hacker News (the only thing of mine I submitted was my GitHub repository on Bing Search blacklisting). But I must quibble with Mr. Lui’s assertion that only good articles make Hacker News page one. Au contraire my friend. My second most successful Hacker News post was a short snippet on a YouTube video about a YouTube spammer who had posted a couple million spam videos. Of all the things. But more on point, I cut Hacker…