Semi-related, but is there some friendly algorithm behind the scenes at HN that resubmits articles if they go flying off /newest without a lot of attention? I submitted a blog post last week that made it to the front page, but its path there was kind of odd. I had submitted it the night before and watched it scroll listlessly off the first page of /newest. The next morning, it was on the front page with a posted time of "5 hours ago", probably a good 8 hours after I originally posted it.