[yorwba]

Intense discussion is what https://news.ycombinator.com/active is for. There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best which (I assume) puts more weight on votes and has less churn. Both still show this submission, although it has dropped off the default frontpage.

Those alternatives should probably be advertised better than just that tiny link in the footer.

If you're only interested in YC news specifically, you can also subscribe to https://blog.ycombinator.com/feed/ . Most of the articles there don't ever make the front page, I think.