I appreciate that news stories on HN aren't, for lack of a better term, popularity-driven. There would be no point to HN existing if we had the same news on fro

I appreciate that news stories on HN aren't, for lack of a better term, popularity-driven. There would be no point to HN existing if we had the same news on frontpage as any other website (apart from the userbase, which I agree is far, far better than most sites).