I often avoid posting java links to HN, thinking that the HN community is more focused on Rails / node.js / python. Guess I should reconsider :)
Funny how this intangible karma stuff affects me :)
Of course, it may not have actually been a wasted opportunity as the (google.com) URL part of the title probably accounts for a large percentage of clicks.
P.S. I upvoted your comment to generate a little more karma as compensation.
Thanks for the upvote, that's kind of you!
In retrospect, I shouldn't have "whined" in my previous comment. As the Facebook quote goes ("If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook"): had I wanted to post this on HN, I would have posted it on HN!
I'll try to post more links in the future (Java or otherwise), and stop trying to anticipate their success according to some pre-conceived notion of what the HN crowd likes: if I think it is interesting, someone else might like it as well ;)