So I submitted this today http://samy.pl/pwnat/ and it didn't get a single vote while inane submissions (IMHO) got to the front page. After a while I deleted the submission and that allowed somebody else to repost it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1224905) I bet because of my other submission to Reddit got noticed.
HN front page rules aren't good if we need to resort to this trickery to have a second chance out of the noise of /newest. Meanwhile, perhaps this can help others.