8 isn't large enough to overcome randomness, alas!
Edit: I actually looked through https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imurray yesterday to see if there was anything we could invite a repost of. (I do this sometimes when looking at which users were first to submit an interesting article.) I didn't see anything, but on a second look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984992 could be interesting, so you'll get an email inviting you to repost that one, if you want to :)
Edit: I actually looked through https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imurray yesterday to see if there was anything we could invite a repost of. (I do this sometimes when looking at which users were first to submit an interesting article.) I didn't see anything, but on a second look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984992 could be interesting, so you'll get an email inviting you to repost that one, if you want to :)