There are many HN posts and comments that don't seem to be deserving the attention they ought to receive.
It could be a variety of factors - timing, poor articulation, expertise, HN unfavourable/misinformed etc
It could be your own comments and posts as well.
It would be great to look at them again with a different perspective.
The Hacker News second chance pool
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
And this is a fun way to browser Hacker News showing all the posts that got at least 3 upvotes...
https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3