I posted a similar story 11 hours ago. It got 71 points and 23 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777

Then it got flagged into oblivion:

http://hnrankings.info/12992777

Wow. Even the second tweet with numbers [1]. Total last 5 day change is -77542 km^2

[1] https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/800003796902391808