Old articles frequently reach the top of HN. There are many great articles that people only discover now rather than when they were originally posted.

I guess it's dating app fatigue makes us promote old articles :)

Fun fact, I learned yesterday that Bumble will delete swipes in their upcoming app reset and go ai assistant way. Not that that I am fan of dating apps, it's one of the worse inventions ever, but seems pretty interesting seeing their stock price plummeted 93% since IPO

Maybe by being something different than the regular slop on the HN front page. And just being a high quality article in general.