While it's a very interesting analysis, it kinda reinforce the idea that it's down to luck. Sure you can make your post on the week end to increase your chances

While it's a very interesting analysis, it kinda reinforce the idea that it's down to luck. Sure you can make your post on the week end to increase your chances (even though I don't understand that given there is only so many room on the hot page, if every one is more likely to go on the top page then no one is). I think it's just the matter that people going to the "news" section tend to upvote the link that are already upvoted. The only way to increase that is to artificially bump up the upvotes by asking friends from different parts of the world to upvote your article while it's in the news section (note that if you cannot give them a link to your post directly or their vote won't be taken into account).