He is talking about Bearblog, the blogging platform that he hosts his website with. Bearblog has it's own discover page and ranking system and every once in a while a post on Bear about AI/tech/whatever will be posted on Hackernews and all of those new people will "upvote" the Bear post and send it to the top of the Bear discover page.

I believe the Herman in question is the owner/operator of the blog hosting provider that this blog is on[1].

(I was also very confused by this, until I saw the footer and clicked on it.)

[1]: https://herman.bearblog.dev

Thank you, I didn’t understand this either.

So am I right to take away from this that the blog is complaining about Bear Blog (about which I know nothing, is it just hosting, a framework, or does it have a front page like HN somewhere?) hosting too many posts that are optimized for HN? It’s not a complain about HN itself, which by implication cannot be saved?

Edit: as pointed out in another post, they actually do have an aggregation page which is pretty cool: https://bearblog.dev/discover/ TBD how correlated it is with HN

He's trying to refer to HN, but struggles with the use of "this" apparently. Maybe he should have used AI for better grammar and clarity.

He started the blog a few weeks ago and figured out how to [redacted].