Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago.
As mentioned, just curious how the upvoting works here. Would be great if someone could help explain.
We put it in the second-chance pool, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there. It's an experiment in giving good stories that fell through the cracks another chance at getting attention on the front page.
I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.
As mentioned, just curious how the upvoting works here. Would be great if someone could help explain.