I've been wondering the same lately. For example, [1] was quite suspicious to me, as I don't think that many people are into website analytics. Anyway, HN is on

I've been wondering the same lately. For example, [1] was quite suspicious to me, as I don't think that many people are into website analytics. Anyway, HN is one of the most popular news aggregators for the tech community, so naturally people try to game the system, I'd say the majority of posts are legitimate though. If you look at the stats of users that post things you can see that most of them have many submissions that go nowhere, along with a few that become quite popular. If you're using HN to promote your projects I'd recommend you to try other platforms as well. Personally I had success with Reddit and found the community there quite good. Also, since it's more fragmented than HN it's easier to get to the frontpage of specialized subreddits, which for a product is the thing that counts most (IMHO). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024277