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Ask HN: Was GitHub leak story suppressed here?

I was late to the party. After resolving our issues with the leak, I tried to find a discussion about it here. I couldn't find it 7h ago. (not an issue anymore).

slater 4y ago
No.
- Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
  Yes. - What now... ?
  - slater 4y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390
    - Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
      I'm wondering why this wasn't on the first page 7h ago? At the moment I see the post just fine on the first page.
      - smoldesu 4y ago
        It was on the frontpage when I went to bed last night. You may have missed it, the title wasn't very clickbaity or eye-catching.
        Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
        Could be, I missed it.
        slater 4y ago
        Nah, p sure it's a conspiracy. nods, taps nose, secret handshake, etc.
        Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
        Sure. My title deserves this response. I'd still like to know, why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 wasn't on the first 5 pages 8h ago.
        slater 4y ago
        Maybe it was but with a different title? Who knows.
        gus_massa 4y ago
        There are two useful unofficial pages: https://hnrankings.info/35285390/ https://hnrankings.info/35285390/ It looks like it has been in the front page for a long time https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (no permalink :( ) It looks like the title has not changed.
dang 4y ago
I'm late to this thread but I want to point out that that story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390) was literally the #1 thread on HN for that entire day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-03-24 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-03-24. It was above the 99.97th percentile for upvotes and above the 99.99th percentile for frontpage exposure—34 hours, which is astonishingly long: Only 323 stories have ever been on the front page for that long since we started keeping that data in 2014. Even the most popular stories on HN get perceived as being censored or suppressed. I don't mean to pick on the OP here—these perceptions are a product of randomness plus bias, and we're all subject to those. But I want to save this example because it makes the point so strikingly: despite how convincing these perceptions feel, they have no evidentiary value.

I was late to the party. After resolving our issues with the leak, I tried to find a discussion about it here. I couldn't find it 7h ago. (not an issue anymore).

slater 4y ago

No.

Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
Yes. - What now... ?
- slater 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390
  - Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
    I'm wondering why this wasn't on the first page 7h ago? At the moment I see the post just fine on the first page.
    - smoldesu 4y ago
      It was on the frontpage when I went to bed last night. You may have missed it, the title wasn't very clickbaity or eye-catching.
      - Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
        Could be, I missed it.
        slater 4y ago
        Nah, p sure it's a conspiracy. nods, taps nose, secret handshake, etc.
        Tom_Bombadil_ 4y ago
        Sure. My title deserves this response. I'd still like to know, why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 wasn't on the first 5 pages 8h ago.
        slater 4y ago
        Maybe it was but with a different title? Who knows.
        gus_massa 4y ago
        There are two useful unofficial pages: https://hnrankings.info/35285390/ https://hnrankings.info/35285390/ It looks like it has been in the front page for a long time https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (no permalink :( ) It looks like the title has not changed.

dang 4y ago

I'm late to this thread but I want to point out that that story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390) was literally the #1 thread on HN for that entire day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-03-24 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-03-24. It was above the 99.97th percentile for upvotes and above the 99.99th percentile for frontpage exposure—34 hours, which is astonishingly long: Only 323 stories have ever been on the front page for that long since we started keeping that data in 2014. Even the most popular stories on HN get perceived as being censored or suppressed. I don't mean to pick on the OP here—these perceptions are a product of randomness plus bias, and we're all subject to those. But I want to save this example because it makes the point so strikingly: despite how convincing these perceptions feel, they have no evidentiary value.