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I've seen several articles on intelligence/IQ/g hit the front page recently (often followed by being flagged and removed). There have been two this morning, plus others in past weeks. At the time of this comment, this post only has 6 points, how are they consistently climbing the charts so quickly?

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Are you sure they're being flagged? I think HN has been experimenting with showing recent submissions more on the main page in order to remedy the problem of /newest being a ghetto no one votes in.

Good point, the one I saw a week or so ago was definitely flagged. These may just be related to the algorithm change you mentioned, and I just noticed them because the previous one made an impression.

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