[colinator]

I'm curious about this as well. It's now #69, 5 minutes later. I seem to recall this happening quite a bit for global warming stories. Anyone from HN want to explain please? Do all 'political' stories get buried?

[asaegyn]

The positive tree planting story (with less engagement + comments) is now #1.

Really weird, I don't get this algorithm. We don't even have a downvote for stories.

[SCHiM]

I noticed this too! We have no insight in how this works 'under the hood'. But this one really disappeared disturbingly fast.

[kryogen1c]

Dont be ridiculous. There are explanations of the ranking algorithim, and even a cursory glance explains this. Top ranked posts get a couple hundred replies and several hundred likes. This comment will be #20 at my writing, and im already 2 of the others.