Comment by iamwil

It doesn't take too many for new stuff. HN has voting ring protection, so I think if enough unrelated people vote on new stuff, it can make the front page. I've made it on the front page with 6 points before. But if it can't get more points at an acceptable rate while on the front page, it drops pretty quickly.

Sometimes, interested things are boosted by dang. This doesn't seem interesting enough, so I doubt it was.