It’s an article about programming on a website frequently visited by programmers that was posted in the middle of a Saturday afternoon (America time) when a lot of people have read the front page already and might be looking at /new? Doesn’t seem so crazy to me.
is nobody here understanding? i meant what i said. it interests me. i think this is really cool, and a really interesting thing. i enjoyed this, and im happy its on the front page.
I like links like this because I like discussions on programming languages which are just on the periphery of mainstream. Nim, dlang, Odin, Zig, etc
No, the HN algorithm has seemed to stress newer posts recently, which is interesting.
HN seems to like Nim and more exotic (though not esoteric) languages.
My guess is as good as yours, but it could be a moderator action. Sometimes submissions are manually upgraded/downgraded by moderators here (that would be dang).
That's not so uncommon. I looked at the vote data and it seemed legit.
I didn't think it was illegitimate. I think the HN algorithm has began to stress newer posts to go the top page. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not. This could also mean that you can check HN every thirty minutes and see something completely different. I personally think this is a good thing.
The HN algorithm hasn't changed recently. Who knows what else may have changed, but not that!
The PR was created a couple of hours ago, and I saw it mentioned in the Nim community's Discord server. I did not mention in Discord that I submitted the link to HN, but I'm guessing a fair number of the participants there also browse HN regularly, so that could be a factor.