Interesting. But I believe you're be wrong about Show HN (as others have pointed out). Show HN makes for an effective way to get to the front page, based on th

Interesting. But I believe you're be wrong about Show HN (as others have pointed out). Show HN makes for an effective way to get to the front page, based on three reasons: 1. You don't need that many votes to make it to the front page, and the votes don't need to happen in the first minutes after you've posted. 2. Many people use shownew[1] in addition to newest[2] to discover content on HN. 3. Show HN posts remain visible for a longer time on shownew compared to regular posts on newest. When you post using Show HN, your post stays for a long time in shownew (right now the last one there was posted 19 hours ago), while on newest your post has to gather votes very quickly to make it to the front page (the last post visible there is from ~50 minutes ago). So Show HN gives you a higher chance of getting your post "discovered". In my case, I've made it to the front page 4 times out of 21 posts. 3 of those were Show HN posts. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest