By any standard you had a successful Hacker News post—it was on the front page for most of the morning, which is good. The number of votes is not meaningful at all on Hacker News so there’s no conversion rate. Also, I strongly suspect that many of the initial early votes on HN came from primary LW users following my link and then upvoting, possibly even people that didn’t upvote it on LW.
By any standard you had a successful Hacker News post—it was on the front page for most of the morning, which is good. The number of votes is not meaningful at all on Hacker News so there’s no conversion rate. Also, I strongly suspect that many of the initial early votes on HN came from primary LW users following my link and then upvoting, possibly even people that didn’t upvote it on LW.