Isn't this the programmer equivalent of one of those old stories "just go talk to the manager and give him a firm handshake." All the recent research in hiring seems to point to trends that white board / hackerrank / leetcode style filtering are up and someone with hiring authority actually looking at a portfolio or code repo at an all time low.
Getting things on the front page of Hacker News remains a good way to get people to contact you. Source: have had people contact me with job-related things for that reason.
