People upvote, the link goes up. The HN front page has never been based on new insights or something similar, it’s just a reflection of what the audience vote for. In this case it’s likely because people here like simonw, who is a known high quality contributor
(author) Yeah, this is a pretty straight-forward link blog piece. It's not really right for HN.
I think this blog gets some special treatment on HN.
From what I can find it doesn’t but he is the most popular poster here (and one of the most prolific) and ex YC
wasn't the original posted yesterday? This is just a link to it with minor comments with nothing new.