Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?
ankeshk: Ideally should not be done.  But disclosure: I've done it before.  And I've done it before because the first 10 minutes of submission seem to be very very important for the life of the submission.Ideally: it would be awesome if we could hide the entries we've already read from the front page.  And these entries are replaced by "new" entries.  This would give the new entries a fair chance - and people wouldn't resort to gaming the system.Also - giving points to people to visit the new page is a good idea.