On: Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices to focus on...

[yellow_lead]

Why's it hidden from the frontpage?

edit: its second for me.. guess the algorithm prioritizes newness or something

[dang → yellow_lead]

A few reasons, including that it set off the flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector; and we downweighted it because there have been countless yet-another-layoffs-story posts recently, so the bar for interestingness has to be higher. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... on the latter point. Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

[yellow_lead → dang]

Makes sense, thanks dang

[speedgoose → yellow_lead]

It got many comments quickly and I guess the HN anti flame ware algorithm deprioritised the post.