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Submissions can end up on the frontpage with less than five votes if they only happen early enough after submitting.

• alecco 4y ago
  It was 12 votes in 36 minutes when I spotted it at the top. That's not exactly a lot.
  • _Microft 4y ago
    But that's a lot? You can check new submissions [0] here and have a look for yourself how most of them fare. The second most upvotes in that time that I just saw there were 4. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest Edit: OK, now the California-climate-power-outage submission has taken off with 19 votes in just over 40 minutes.
  • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    Saturday mornings are slow for submissions. Look at the competition, number two is more than 2 hours old.
  • aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    It is for hn.
  • dagw 4y ago
    The number 3 story on my front page right now has 8 votes.