something not mentioned is the importance of timing. for example a link posted on saturday 11:00PM pacific will not receive nearly as much attention as the same link posted on a friday at 7:00AM pacific.
- https://blog.rmotr.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-...
- https://medium.com/@mi.schaefer/what-is-the-best-time-to-pos...
But the precondition is that you’re submitting high quality content.
At least for this post, I made sure to post it in the afternoon. To have an overall between Eurpean and US time. (I'm based in near Amsterdam)