Anecdote: I tried to submit my side project multiple times, it never got a single upvote. Then, a day after I gave up, someone else submitted it and it made it

Anecdote: I tried to submit my side project multiple times, it never got a single upvote. Then, a day after I gave up, someone else submitted it and it made it to the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622285 After that, I came to the conclusion that HN's ranking system was highly sub-optimal (given that you can get wildly divergent behavior for the same content).