This is an interesting case study in how the submitted headline affects the page's rank on HN. I'd originally submitted this earlier today, with the headline "

This is an interesting case study in how the submitted headline affects the page's rank on HN. I'd originally submitted this earlier today, with the headline "Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013 Proceedings": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815771 It only got one other upvote and never made it to the front page. Meanwhile, another article submitted at almost exactly the same time with far less interesting content but a more provocative headline (on a user getting banned from Uber for API abuse) got ~15 votes, pushing it onto the front page. I re-submitted this page with a slightly more descriptive (and buzzwordy) headline ("State of the art Machine Learning papers: NIPS 2013"), and it almost immediately ended up on the front page. Since then the headline has been reverted to the page's headline, again slowing the rate at which it's received votes.