This looks like great stuff if you follow the pointers, but lists don't make good submissions to HN (which itself is already a list). They tend not to lead to deep discussion because comments are about lowest common denominator of the items on the list, and this is usually pretty generic. What's better is to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The funny thing is that the thread so far has still mostly been generic, yet I swear the comments are higher-quality than they would have been without the change. (Impossible to say for sure, of course)