When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
HN is frustrating. I've had two blog posts hit #1 in r/programming recently. Neither got more than 2 points on HN.<p>I could be wrong but I <i>think</i> HN is more random than Reddit. Reddit has lots of randomness of course. But my gut says that escaping New on HN is harder and less predictable.