As I said above, what is new is "me", the audience, and imho that's reason enough. I will never start digging around like a mad man in the annals of HN for cool

As I said above, what is new is "me", the audience, and imho that's reason enough. I will never start digging around like a mad man in the annals of HN for cool stuff to read, but if some good older piece makes the front page again, then that is good.