Now it's completely gone. I just searched with control-F through pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 which is the l

Now it's completely gone. I just searched with control-F through pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 which is the last page and it's not in any of the 20 pages. It's literally not in the top 584 results (20 pages worth). If you look at page 20 https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=20 https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=20 , you will see that even stories marked [dupe] are still retained, at around that page. Yet this story is not. I have screenshots of every page from this quick test. This does seem like it could be plausibly explained as an attempt to control the narrative -- market manipulation by YC -- and that that would be the type of thing you’d expect Sam to force YC to do if the allegations in this suppressed letter of Sam’s bullying are true. If anyone YC-affiliated is using their user account (not their mod privileges, their ordinary personal user account) to flag this to suppress the story for financial gain, that could get the person behind bars. If you're reading this and you've been doing that, I suggest you unflag the post and please move on.