39 points by davidbarker 3 days ago | 5 comments
gregw2 3 days ago
greatgib 3 days ago
viraptor 3 days ago
You just got lucky to see a new post at the right time.
greatgib 3 days ago
For example, the following one was posted 1h ago, have almost 50 points and comments, and is just at the 15th place now when the IBM one is around 9th with 6 points. When I did my first comment it already had a lot of points but was on second page of results.
Just around the same time as IBM post, there was 2 other posts with also 3 points that aren't anywhere near any of the "top" pages:
One 5 mins before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901058
One 15 min later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901168
And 20 mins later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901210
Obviously points are increasing a lot now that the post is in the topest of the top.
greatgib 3 days ago
And I often expect the comments to provide interesting context for articles. Especially some like that there are raw company PR without context.
greatgib 3 days ago
Number one of the ranking with 4 points and zero comment.
Again, a blog post that is ok but very very far from exceptional. A shell tip blog post like thousand others before.
EDIT: 5 mins later it is in position 25th with 8 points of karma.