It happened to me too, submitted the link, tail -f httplog | grep blogpost, the usual bots, one to three up-votes, then it fell off the "newest". Left the terminal open and went on with work. When I was about to close down all open terminals and go home for the day, I noticed there was traffic! So I quickly checked HN and there it was, my post on the front page! I was so euphoric I couldn't prepare the dinner, walking around in circles, putting the plates in the refrigerator instead of the table, etc. Biggest surprise was there was mostly Macbooks, and also quite a lot of RSS readers in the User-agent.
