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Please can someone help me understand how placing a link on a webpage got to page 1 on hacker news?

• jarfil 8y ago
  It's GDPR compliant, also GitHub is now MS, so like the dark side, and GitLab is Han Solo. In one word: populism.
• guessmyname 8y ago
  Adding to what @jarfil said, it is also Saturday. Many non-relevant stories show up in the front page of HN during the weekend because many people disconnect from the website to stay with their families or whatever. Many of these missing upvotes/downvotes are also the ones that make up the self-moderation that the website is known for. Don't think too much about it, the GitHub + Microsoft thing is just in the air nowadays, anything that teases the acquisition will sparkle a reaction from the community, today that reaction translates into upvotes of this type of links.