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I'm confused - I submitted this story and identical link a day earlier but got no traction. Not complaining, just wondering how Hacker News works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19043315




It's like when you tell a joke: who posts a link and when is as important as the content of the link itself. It's unfair, but any human system is influenced that way.


Probably just timing & competition from other articles... Often an article is submitted twice, and the second attempt gains traction.




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