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Interesting, this post was removed (shadow delisted). I don't see it on the in the first 3 pages anymore after it was at number 11 just a few minutes ago.

cglace 2y ago
Most doge/musk things are disappearing.
- beretguy 2y ago
  [flagged]
  - hyperbrainer 2y ago
    [flagged]
eigart 2y ago
Aren’t they normally marked with “flagged” or something?
stavros 2y ago
It's on the front page for me.
jrs235 2y ago
To see and find popular but flagged stories use hckrnews.com as your entry point.
ryandvm 2y ago
Man, for a place that supposedly considers itself a bastion of free thinkers, we sure do spend a lot of time quarreling about self-censorship.
- jkmcf 2y ago
  Isn’t that the way politics is now? Freedom of speech for me, but not for thee? Or is it, My speech is free, but yours are lies? Hypocrisy everywhere.
coreyh14444 2y ago
I use https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ (alternate interface) to avoid this issue.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  I just always search top stories in the last 24 hours. You can actually do an empty search and receive everything.
dang 2y ago
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's not hard to guess: there have been countless stories like this and people are (rightly) tired of the repetition. Edit: If you (or anyone) want further explanation, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 and the links there. If, after that, you have a question that I haven't already answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  People voted for radical change yet want to absolve themselves of the inevitable friction. Though in the case of Musk he still might have had similar turmoil given the valuation of TSLA dwindling in 2024 and his antics on X. I don't know if a campaign against a tech person in the news should be suppressed just because people are "tired" of seeing it (meanwhile, AI posted a dozen times per day). Is it too late to build in a simple regex filter for accounts?
  - dang 2y ago
    I don't think HN users wanting to preserve HN for its intended purpose of intellectual curiosity has much to do with "absolving themselves". It's simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another.
    - johnnyanmac 2y ago
      "man is not a rational animal: he is a rationizing animal" -Robert A. Heinlein We have varying phases of new hyped tech get many low quality articles that don't inspire curiosity but nonetheless satisfy some people's need to circle around the same talking points. I just find it unfortunate that the moment any overhyped tech is linked to "the real world" that we start to dismiss it. I suppose the answer isn't surprising given the population's disposition of acting like computer scientists and not software engineers, but is techs effect on actual people not intellectually curious? Are we fine just tinkering with ideas and throwing pandora's box out for the rest of the world to handle? >s simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another. Well I don't have any data, but at this point I don't think this is happening organically. That's my main concern. It's no coincidence this only seems to happen with negative press for a certain person, when months ago pretty much all news on this subject would not be flagged (hence the first part of my comment). You do have the data, but if your data says otherwise, there's not much I can do. I'll just keep doing what I'm already doing and try to fight the suppression.

cglace 2y ago

Most doge/musk things are disappearing.

beretguy 2y ago
[flagged]
- hyperbrainer 2y ago
  [flagged]

eigart 2y ago

Aren’t they normally marked with “flagged” or something?

stavros 2y ago

It's on the front page for me.

jrs235 2y ago

To see and find popular but flagged stories use hckrnews.com as your entry point.

ryandvm 2y ago

Man, for a place that supposedly considers itself a bastion of free thinkers, we sure do spend a lot of time quarreling about self-censorship.

jkmcf 2y ago
Isn’t that the way politics is now? Freedom of speech for me, but not for thee? Or is it, My speech is free, but yours are lies? Hypocrisy everywhere.

coreyh14444 2y ago

I use https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ (alternate interface) to avoid this issue.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
I just always search top stories in the last 24 hours. You can actually do an empty search and receive everything.

dang 2y ago

Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's not hard to guess: there have been countless stories like this and people are (rightly) tired of the repetition. Edit: If you (or anyone) want further explanation, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 and the links there. If, after that, you have a question that I haven't already answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
People voted for radical change yet want to absolve themselves of the inevitable friction. Though in the case of Musk he still might have had similar turmoil given the valuation of TSLA dwindling in 2024 and his antics on X. I don't know if a campaign against a tech person in the news should be suppressed just because people are "tired" of seeing it (meanwhile, AI posted a dozen times per day). Is it too late to build in a simple regex filter for accounts?
- dang 2y ago
  I don't think HN users wanting to preserve HN for its intended purpose of intellectual curiosity has much to do with "absolving themselves". It's simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    "man is not a rational animal: he is a rationizing animal" -Robert A. Heinlein We have varying phases of new hyped tech get many low quality articles that don't inspire curiosity but nonetheless satisfy some people's need to circle around the same talking points. I just find it unfortunate that the moment any overhyped tech is linked to "the real world" that we start to dismiss it. I suppose the answer isn't surprising given the population's disposition of acting like computer scientists and not software engineers, but is techs effect on actual people not intellectually curious? Are we fine just tinkering with ideas and throwing pandora's box out for the rest of the world to handle? >s simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another. Well I don't have any data, but at this point I don't think this is happening organically. That's my main concern. It's no coincidence this only seems to happen with negative press for a certain person, when months ago pretty much all news on this subject would not be flagged (hence the first part of my comment). You do have the data, but if your data says otherwise, there's not much I can do. I'll just keep doing what I'm already doing and try to fight the suppression.