Currently this submission, after 10 hours, is on position 160, with 37 upvotes and 12 comments.
On position 161, there's an article submitted 13 hours ago with 4 upvotes and 2 comments.
On position 69, there's another article submitted 10 hours ago, with just 11 upvotes and 3 comments.
My hypothesis is that daring fireball articles get flagged, regardless of their content.