I love Instapaper, and always find what he has to say interesting, but it baffles me that every one of his blog posts seems to reach the front page of HN almost

I love Instapaper, and always find what he has to say interesting, but it baffles me that every one of his blog posts seems to reach the front page of HN almost immediately. It makes me wonder if people wait for RSS notifications of his entries and then jump to be the first to post it and get the guaranteed karma bump.