[edoceo]

Isn't "super interesting" relative/subjective? And if it doesn't make FP its therefore not super interesting? Heck, I'm low karma, posted mildly interesting things that have been FP. Maybe FP is the measurement of interesting?

[dheera]

Relative to the general audience.

Ideally, whether or not something makes it to the front page should depend on whether the readers of HN think it's interesting.

However, the current (sub-optimal IMO) situation is that as long as it meets some pretty low bar for "interesting", it depends MUCH more on the submitter's friend network than the readers.