Clearly some burying going on, there’s stories above this at 50 points / 8 hours ago, and it’s at 200 in one hour...
news.yc doesn’t like the fact that its main craze for years has been outed as a global affliction, destroying the climate with impunity.
As far as I know, HN gives a push to submissions in the first hour to allow it to gain visibility. That push probably expired.
I think dang has also talked about how "controversial" comment sections in posts causes them to be deranked more quickly, and with this having as many comments as points within an hour, it certainly seems like it'd meet the criteria.