None of what you mentioned related to "traffic to a blog post from HN front page". I am just saying "traffic from HN front page" is a poor example of things tha

None of what you mentioned related to "traffic to a blog post from HN front page". I am just saying "traffic from HN front page" is a poor example of things that need "scale up". Not disagreeing all the challenges you mentioned. Just "traffic from HN front page" is so easy it is a poor example.