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It’s 10 days old and has far fewer comments By marking it as a duplicate, you just killed this new thread.

• dang 7y ago
  The criterion we use is: did the previous post get significant attention? 87 points and 36 comments is way over that threshold. When a discussion is particularly good, we sometimes override that. This one seems pretty generic to me, though, especially in light of how many coronavirus threads HN has been seeing. I'm not sure there's even a single comment below that is reacting to more than what's in the title: "outbreak", "not ready", and "Bill Gates".
  • nouveaux 7y ago
    I'd argue that this post is more relevant than 10 days ago and should receive an exemption. 10 days ago, the number of cases were small and there was no lock down. Many people did not consider Corvid-19's real impact. Now that most of the country is taking it seriously, it is more top of mind. 10 days ago, Corvid-19 posts were barely considered here on HN. Now many are generating serious discussions. Please reconsider marking this as a dupe.
    • dang 7y ago
      We've also had 10 days worth of massive coronavirus discussion. The issue is the quality (and specificity) of this thread relative to the others.