Were I to have written this, I would have included a link to the post in question. That seems a pretty obvious traffic acquisition strategy to me. When you writ

Were I to have written this, I would have included a link to the post in question. That seems a pretty obvious traffic acquisition strategy to me. When you write a followup about how this post was included on the front page perhaps that will be a point under "The Bad" :-P The few times I've been on the front page of HN I've had a fairly consistent 1000 visitors per hour, FWIW.