It has 87 points and it’s 18 hours old, it dropped off because it didn’t generate interest.

Also, a bit of advice, finding conspiracy everywhere, weakens your arguments for potentially true conspiracy theories. It could be that your thoughts presented in this comment are completely accurate. However, then accusing the staff of HackerNews of sabotaging and covering up this small, barely-news story makes you look like you see boogeymen everywhere. It removes credence from your more important thoughts.