Took me five minutes to figure out what you were talking about. The submission is off the front page, already.
Consider: editors sleep. I've noticed a tendency for less-topical stuff to appear on the front page on weekends and at, say, 9am UTC, when the entire USA is asleep, and when it is 2am in Silicon Valley. From this I conclude that a sizable fraction of hardcore HN vets, including the team with Super Moderator Powers, lives and works in the USA, particularly in CA. This, of course, is no surprise at all.
So, try reading HN at the better times. Or, recruit more English-speaking, tasteful HN readers in Central Asia, India, China, Australia.
Or you might just try to laugh off the occasional stupid story.
Or, launch your own. An HN rival launches every week. Sometimes one even grows large enough to be noticed.
Consider: editors sleep. I've noticed a tendency for less-topical stuff to appear on the front page on weekends and at, say, 9am UTC, when the entire USA is asleep, and when it is 2am in Silicon Valley. From this I conclude that a sizable fraction of hardcore HN vets, including the team with Super Moderator Powers, lives and works in the USA, particularly in CA. This, of course, is no surprise at all.
So, try reading HN at the better times. Or, recruit more English-speaking, tasteful HN readers in Central Asia, India, China, Australia.
Or you might just try to laugh off the occasional stupid story.
Or, launch your own. An HN rival launches every week. Sometimes one even grows large enough to be noticed.