It wasn't hidden from /active or anywhere else. It was on the front page for twelve hours after multiple interventions from us to keep it there. It was on the second page for many hours after that, and is still ranked in the top 150 stories and is getting new comments, three days after it was posted, which is unusual.

Edit:

This claim that we somehow hid that story from /active is one of the weirder I've experienced, which is saying a lot, but, for the record, here are the Wayback Machine links showing it near the top of /active for over 24 hours.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250610063553/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250611094239/https://news.ycom...