I've submitted 11 things on HN. Three things were my content, three I'd seen posted here before that got a lot of comments but hadn't been posted for a while, and the rest were just random things of interest.
Had much more success submitting stuff to reddit. So I guess I'll stick to the comment section on HN :)
11 is not that much. Out of my 442 submissions, only 35 reached the front page and had significant activity (>= 20 points and >= 10 comments). That's an 8% chance of reaching the front page without optimizing anything (apart from the interestingness of the submissions themselves).
Looking through your submissions, all of those are such interesting topics. It’s a shame there isn’t time and space for all the interesting topics that must be being submitted all the time.
