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by booleanbetrayal 634 days ago
I also am a bit mystified as to why this isn't trending to the front.
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It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got scrubbed from the front page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510285

Not sure, but HN might down weight reuters due to paywall, and this story seems to be a Reuters-exclusive.