One ongoing thread might be better, but it's hard to argue that this is not big tech news. HN users cut through the noise of Twitter replies, and I enjoy reading what they have to say, so I'm having to search "Twitter" in HN's search and sort by "last 24 hours."

It´s a bit weird?

This is all over twitter, one of the biggest tech stories in a long time while very relevant to corporate culture in general - but there´s almost dead silence here?

That said the story and musk shenanigans in general is also quite annoying at this point.

I've been wondering the same thing. It's the first time I've ever noticed something like this. But Twitter stories appear to be getting buried for some reason.

There are various algorithms around the front page of HN.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089 where dang has a "overheated discussion detector" to try to give things a chance to cool off.

Too much material on a single topic likely also gets down rated (similar to how posts about politics get less visibility).

It's a more efficient use of peoples time to let the drama shake out and then read up on it later?

Not everybody cares to hear a play by play of every inappropriate fart that Elon Musk passes.

It was overwhelming the site a few days ago, but I assume the mods weighed it down to make room for other, better stories. Rubbernecking the slow train wreck that is the collision of Elon Musk's ego with the brutal reality of his technical limitations may be fun and cathartic for a certain kind of personality, but it isn't exactly gratifying to intellectual curiosity.