If you turn on the "showdead" flag on your profile you will get a lot of insight into how HN works. Particularly there are a lot of people who post a link to their blog and another link to their blog and yet another link to their blog and these always start out [dead].

If, on the on the other hand you regularly post links to other people's blogs and participate in discussion you won't have any trouble slipping in a link to your own blog. The key is you're expected to be part of the community.