[mtmail]

200+ comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330

[sgt101]

Didn't appear as an item for me yesterday at all - something's not right about that!

[abababba]

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-08-13&p=2

55th position

[ddtaylor]

Wow! I didn't know you could look at the homepage based on day. That's awesome, thanks!!

[js2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists includes that option among other lists. The story from yesterday is currently number 11 on the best list.

[Max_Mustermann]

You can also check them by order of votes with waybackhn: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2018-08-13

[some_account]

How come that is not in top items of hacker news?

[theandrewbailey]

Lots of factors go into it. Key words in titles and certain domains can drag things down.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

[beat]

Because the evil Google conspiracy suppressed it!

[froogie]

You say that as if xorporations didn't do this by e.g. vote manipulation in Reddit.

[mbel]

It was yesterday.

[TACIXAT]

The algorithm accounts for time.

[oinkgrr]

oh, missed that.