Amazing how an article from Wikipedia easily trends on HN for no good reason, while many posts go unseen under the [new] tab.
I've seen submissions by original authors not trending, but then someone with enough karma points booming the same article in a second submission, and then folks having to adjust or point to the original submission to give the proper credit (and karma points) to the author.
Visiting [newest] always has a handful of entries that are genuinely interesting, but never trend. At all.
I challenge HN team to bring one to three random entries from [newest] into the [news] (trending) page as an exercise.