They're trying some experiments to make good content surface.
They tried sending an email asking people to repost. Now they adjust the time stamp and apply a small (1 extra point?) bonus.
They tried sending an email asking people to repost. Now they adjust the time stamp and apply a small (1 extra point?) bonus.
It goes nowhere. Someone with higher karma submits the exact same article with the exact same headline about two hours later, and it winds up on the front page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207
(edit: Whoever downvoted this, I was responding to someone who goes by the name AdmiralAsshat, and I was obviously joking. But that might just be HN automatically downvoting people for using words like asshat. In which case, HN is being a pure asshat.)