I tried submitting this as a Show HN a couple times but it didn't take, so I'm happy to see some interest!
I caught this just before bed, but I'm happy to take any suggestions or questions, and I'll answer in the morning.
If you'd like to improve the metadata, I welcome PRs here: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471177
Did that get filtered out become of the domain?
It doesn't change much, but it means less special-casing for universities.
> I can think of two remaining cards to play.
> The first is to get on the front page of Hacker News. That’s usually difficult to do, but I’m supposed to be the expert.
Well done
I had two posts[0, 1] I was super confident would be a match for HN and two others[2, 3] that I thought had a so-so chance. They've all flopped except I got lucky that someone else submitted this one after I gave up.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43435961
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43345866
Also, just from my subjective sense, it's a reasonable cutoff for when articles are officially on the front page for any meaningful amount of time rather than they briefly appear and then fall off.