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Odd. I posted this same essential news story on the day it occurred only to have it flagged for no apparent reason, despite being major news about a famous figure, on a site where notifications about famous figures and major non-tech news aren't uncommon.

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It’s not odd if you consider that hacker news is not really the place with that kind of discussion generally

If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll see that massive topics like that are intentionally kept off the front page for a while so that it doesn’t overwhelm everyone

Frankly, I’m glad that’s the policy because Reddit (and I assume all other media) yesterday was just completely covered top to bottom in the story

As a regular reddit trawler, i was quite happily surprised at how little there actually was.

im sure the same standard would apply if some other huge political news broke… like biden resigning. oh wait

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