Apparently HN is quite fickle on when something makes it to the front page :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mattwarren.org

I mean, posting your content repeatedly until it hits the front page isn't great…

Why not? It's completely allowed.

See this[0] Tcl jumping-off point (stub??) for another implementation (est. 1999) of same principle.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Stubs

Thanks for the link, looks interesting!