none of us are trawling /new and upvoting anything, sadly. Great posts regularly don't get a single click the first time through the HN mill. To be on the front page an article needs to be 1) clickbait title, 2) good content, 3) lucky, 4) posted when the Americans are awake.

Oh well.

The last bit is the main thing I think. The original has exactly the same title and original poster has a lot higher karma.