Excerpt from the current Hacker News top 30:

2. China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mission (101 points, 3h ago)

7. Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved (63 points, 4h ago)

30. Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions (this thread) (348 points, 2h ago)

I recognize that the Hacker News ranking algorithm takes more criteria into account than just current number of points and time posted, but this is an instance where a little extra transparency in the ranking model would help to show that this is not an arbitrary moderated downrank.