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I've had a few submissions reach the front page, but I can never predict which ones will do so...definitely not the ones I thought were extra cool.

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What's the most extra cool one that never made it?

I’m not the poster you asked, but I was extremely surprised when my article on what it took to write a native iMessage client for Windows 10 and the roadblocks and traps Apple left to stop it from happening didn’t get more than a handful of votes; it really seemed to me to be exactly the mix of things that HN readers normally ask for more of.

https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/

The dominant factor in what gets traction off /newest is randomness, unfortunately, so you can't conclude anything from one or two data points. I'll send you a repost invite for that one.

^ As of 11:24 PM EDT this story is now the top story on HN. Kind of nuts!

That's actually very cool -- I've always lamented that iMessage never had a Windows client. I can relate to also posting a few projects/posts that I thought were cool which never hit the front page, but I've also had 4 or so of my blog posts hit top-10 over the past few years, so I shouldn't complain.

I was surprised that my post on a strategy to make modern web apps work without JavaScript didn't get any attention, but I might just need some work on my writing and titles.

The topic is one I expected to hit the nail on the head with the HN crowd, though.

https://blog.klungo.no/2020/05/28/using-react-and-redux-to-a...

never got any interest in any non-commercial blog posts I found interesting but never generated any fumes.

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