<story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks.&lt;p&gt;Second-person tetris then?&lt;p&gt;[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -&amp;#62; front page. write a new game from scratch -&amp;#62; dustbin]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn&apos;t actually good advice, but I&apos;ve seen all of these methods work).&lt;p&gt;Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old.&lt;p&gt;Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader).&lt;p&gt;Have a linkbait title. Don&apos;t worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so you don&apos;t look like a jackass.&lt;p&gt;Need to re-post an article that didn&apos;t gain traction before? Add #SOMETHING to the end of the URL. The matching algorithm will think it&apos;s a new link.&lt;p&gt;Create a voting ring. Make sure to do some actual posting/upvoting, as there is voting ring detection. The simplest prevention is that upvotes from the same IP don&apos;t seem to count.&lt;p&gt;Have a short article, instead of a long one. By my estimate 90% of people upvote based on title alone, 9% upvote based on the first paragraph of the article, and 1% actually reads it.&lt;p&gt;Post something as &quot;Show HN: please review my X&quot;. These seem to gain a lot of favor. Brag about how it was a weekend project, took you 2 hours, etc.&lt;p&gt;Have high karma and lots of fans.&lt;p&gt;Post &quot;What I learned from building my tetris clone&quot; article&lt;p&gt;Talk about how Paleo diet changed your life&lt;p&gt;Promise to teach us how to stop eating/sleeping/wasting time/driving/having stuff.&lt;p&gt;Write an article about how your work environment is different and how it makes you productive.&lt;p&gt;Do something that is otherwise trivial using only CSS. Apply the same approach to Haskell to get a PhD in Computer Science (I literally saw a thesis a while ago about memoization techniques in Haskell.)&lt;p&gt;Post a short angry rant or make a wild claim. This is especially helpful if you are a mildly popular blogger. Accuse Google/Apple of doing something that will ruin their business. Make a wild prediction about how the Entire Google empire is based on a dozen bloggers using Google Reader.&lt;p&gt;Read: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homepage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks.&lt;p&gt;Second-person tetris then?&lt;p&gt;[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -&amp;#62; front page. write a new game from scratch -&amp;#62; dustbin]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>like Blockout from the 90s? &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?um=1&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;biw=1920&amp;#38;bih=953&amp;#38;tbm=isch&amp;#38;sa=1&amp;#38;q=blockout&amp;#38;oq=blockout&amp;#38;gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.3672.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..6.img.rR7hL6R1Vao&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/search?um=1&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;biw=1920&amp;#3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>