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by _delirium 5386 days ago
I think the opposite is generally true--- traffic on HN is high enough that things are very heavily dependent on the randomness of whether it gets 1-3 upvotes in the first 15 minutes, when the submission is still on the top half of the /newest page.

It'd be interesting if we had some empirical data, though.