One article... every time. And the only reason it gets any traction is because of who the author is -- not because of anything substantively useful. Do you think this whole "pelican on a bicycle" would have blown up if, say, you were the first?

one article? more like 30 comments with a set of links to his blog.

I didn't submit this story.

If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net you'll see that I submitted just one out of the last thirty articles from my site that were submitted to Hacker News - and the one I submitted failed to gain any votes.