Just from 4 hours ago.
That was one of those threads which just gets opaquely disappeared off the front page.
Which is something I've been noticing happening a lot lately. Really big turnoff from participating in this site.
The ranking algo might be a bit more sophisticated.
The problem is the opaqueness of it
Which leaves a lot of room for the appearance of capriciousness, and sometimes even (though not so much in this case, this is not nearly that consequential a story) malice.
http://sangaline.com/post/the-stories-that-hacker-news-remov...