Going to the top on Hacker News

Yesterday I had a rough, small idea for a post: The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI. It was an open question: more like thinking out loud for myself (for me, this is one of the fun things about blogging). I wrote these thoughts down and went about my day. "Publish and proceed" as they say. A few hours later I was browsing Hacker News and saw my own post near the top?! Well, that was a surprise. This meant my post should be generating some traffic? And indeed a tail -f on my logs confirmed this. My VPS was getting a lot of traffic. Someone had submitted my post, and their submission had gained some traction. As I type this it has generated 450 upvotes and more than 300 comments (I have not joined in myself or yet read them all). Traffic is still going as a type this, with over 12k unique visitors: That is unusual for me. I write daily on janvandenberg.blog -- I now have my yearly weeklong sabbatical, and moved my writing for this week to j11g.com which is my more tech-oriented…