Apologies for the meta comment, but this post has been banished from the HN front page [1]. Any ideas why? ---- Update: It has been restored as of 9:33am PST.

Apologies for the meta comment, but this post has been banished from the HN front page [1]. Any ideas why? ---- Update: It has been restored as of 9:33am PST. No sure why the downvotes, I found this is be somewhat amazing given whose post this was. [1] as of 9:28am PST at least