[mandmandam]

The comment pointing out that this story is flagged is itself flagged, for some reason.

Since you might have showdead off, I'll repeat the point.

And to add to the point, this isn't a snapshot. It's a trajectory. Look at my favorites for a list of good, important stories which were flagged here lately.

Look at PG and Garry Tan's Twitters, where they praise the DOGE team. Look at the point-blank refusal of the mod team here to permit a discussion on these false flags in their own thread, rather than just in comments. You don't need to be a savant to notice the pattern here.

[sn9]

If it was the trajectory you're talking about, it would have stayed off the front page after you saw it down lower in the ranking.

There's a lot of stochastic behavior in the ranking of posts based on when people see them and how many of them upvote or comment. Always has been.

[mandmandam]

Ah, I thought you were referring to this story as 'the snapshot' and HN as a whole as 'the trajectory'.