Suggestion: Improve Hacker News algorithm to serve Europe better

I have a relatively simple suggestion which I think could make hacker news better for some of us on the other side of the pond:

The problem: During the awake hours of Europe, since there is less traffic, it is harder for an article (even though it's buzzing, relatively to the traffic) to move around the front page. This is a shame in my opinion

My suggestion: Why not either change the rules depending if we're simply on pacific time or 9 hours appart. But then that's just custom for Europe. How about inducing an hourly traffic variable in there?