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I guess this post beat mine? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205859

• floatingatoll 7y ago
  Nope, it's just the random dupe that ended up getting the upvotes for whatever reasons. This happens constantly and the one that gets the upvotes has more to do with chance than any other factor.
  • cookiecaper 7y ago
    s/chance/timing/. Social media scoring can be fickle indeed, but there are entire industries devoted to optimizing and reverse-engineering the hotness algos of various traffic-drivers. This case is probably coincidental, but it's naive to ascribe high scoring merely to luck. It looks SEJeff posted around 12pm PDT, maybe on his way out to lunch. This post was two hours later, as everyone got back from lunch. :)