I think Nautilus articles do well, but never well enough to induce the activity penalty that the really popular stuff on HN gets hit with. They also tend to gen

I think Nautilus articles do well, but never well enough to induce the activity penalty that the really popular stuff on HN gets hit with. They also tend to generate a number of comments over time, but not so many that they trigger the excessive discussion parameters that kick things off the front page. I would also assume that they basically never get flagged as the articles are generally not controversial.