@amoroso i've hit the top spot of HN a few times, and every time it's crickets. Those people are invested in you as a person. or your content, so they're very unlikely to email.
I think that it's regular readers that are far more likely to make contact.
@kev @stfn Okay, but it takes quite a lot of regular readers to get at least a mail or two. A few hundred regular readers may not be enough.