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> but it got no traction, so I'm really surprised to find it on the front page today

There's a lot of randomness in what happens to get noticed or get traction on HN. We have various tricks to try to mitigate that. One is that we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

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> There's a lot of randomness in what happens to get noticed or get traction on HN.

I'm the kind of user that just lurks in the front page, so I don't really have any right to complain if my work doesn't get noticed by others. I'm glad that it did though.

> we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet

Does that apply to Show HN too?

Yes.

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