HN weights stories by novelty to avoid having the front page just being round #4643 of never ending social arguments. If something appears to be just a minor a

HN weights stories by novelty to avoid having the front page just being round #4643 of never ending social arguments. If something appears to be just a minor amendment to an event that's already been represented on HN, it gets penalised. Dang has a comment about it somewhere. I've already seen posts on here about both Google firing organizers and hiring the union busting firm. It doesn't appear novel and deserves the penalty.