Hey I'm the OP, the HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
"If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates."
I reposted it several times over the past month. I'm sorry if that was too much, now I know that.