Yeah something definitely feels off. The only 'recent' item on the frontpage is an internal HN job posting which works outside of the upvote/downvote algorithm.

Yeah something definitely feels off. The only 'recent' item on the frontpage is an internal HN job posting which works outside of the upvote/downvote algorithm. My guess is that a cron job that updates/counts the up/down votes and refreshes the homepage hasn't run in 10 hours. Just a guess :)