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Didn't appear as an item for me yesterday at all - something's not right about that!

55th position

Wow! I didn't know you could look at the homepage based on day. That's awesome, thanks!!

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists includes that option among other lists. The story from yesterday is currently number 11 on the best list.

You can also check them by order of votes with waybackhn: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2018-08-13

How come that is not in top items of hacker news?

It was yesterday.

The algorithm accounts for time.

Lots of factors go into it. Key words in titles and certain domains can drag things down.

Because the evil Google conspiracy suppressed it!

You say that as if xorporations didn't do this by e.g. vote manipulation in Reddit.

oh, missed that.