1) There are certain things that click with the majority of the HN audience (or at least the ones who up vote) and the weekend hacks go into this category 2) H

1) There are certain things that click with the majority of the HN audience (or at least the ones who up vote) and the weekend hacks go into this category 2) HN is unpredictable and some luck is involved. If you get a couple of up votes from people early, you are more likely to get more clicks from the /new page, which leads to more upvotes... Social proof, kind of.