Agree with the 'needle eye' being smaller but > One could argue that a story that makes it to the front page today is much higher quality This assumes that qu

Agree with the 'needle eye' being smaller but > One could argue that a story that makes it to the front page today is much higher quality This assumes that quality of content is the driving factor in success on Hn or any social network which isn't the case. Timing, attention grabbing title and an engaging subject are arguably more important.