HN&#x27;s algorithms make no sense to me, either. I submitted this story the other day:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10561347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10561347</a><p>It goes nowhere. Someone with higher karma submits the <i>exact</i> same article with the <i>exact</i> same headline about two hours later, and it winds up on the front page of HN:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10562207" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10562207</a>