Off-topic, but why this story is so low on the front page? A ton of upvoted, not many comments (so no indication of flamewar), still is below position 25 for s

Off-topic, but why this story is so low on the front page? A ton of upvoted, not many comments (so no indication of flamewar), still is below position 25 for several hours (with much better upvote-to-hours ratio than most of stories above it). Just weird.