Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It

strange that that post is also missing from the first page of hacker news, even though it's newer and has more votes than some other content on page 1

What catches HN at the right time is always a little strange. I submitted the gas pump skimmer article four days before it topped HN and got blogged about heavily on other sites.

The HN algorithm seemingly took it off the front page fast, so no problem by me.

> Weird seeing a repost on the website where a lot of the story unfolded on the same day.

Not only that, this nytimes story got bumped to #3 within a few minutes with no comments/votes.

Does the nytimes pay for preferential treatment of their stories?

Much more likely, this post got several upvotes quickly because users recognized the story (and its relation to HN) from earlier today. The algorithm heavily rewards early upvotes.

Oh okay. I'm fairly new to how things work here and unaware of how the algorithm works.