It was on the front page for most of the European afternoon, but it dropped off at about 8am pacific time, so I'm guessing west coast American HNers probably wo

It was on the front page for most of the European afternoon, but it dropped off at about 8am pacific time, so I'm guessing west coast American HNers probably wouldn't have seen it. There's probably a whole bunch of links on HN that people miss because they weren't awake in the time period that the link was on the front page.