Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why this is so low on HN? It has more votes and is more recent than anything except the "How I didn't make a billion dollar company" post, but is at rank 11.
The title isn't something that I would have had any idea what it was about or why I should read it if I hadn't been linked here from a comment thread with a more informative title.
Yep. I don't read medium posts as a general principle, and the title meant nothing to me so I skipped right over it. Only saw it in another thread.
HN penalizes high discussion posts for being gossipy.
HN penalizes post randomly sometimes. The last time I had one of my blogpost pretty high on the front page, it lasted an hour and then went directly to 5th-page. It gave me an impression that everything on the FP is heavily handpicked.
Those penalties can occur simply from users flagging posts, which is likely what happened here, given the vitriol elsewhere in-thread about Amazon.