Founder and CEO of Telegram arrested at French airport on multiple charges

[mmastrac]

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-816149

[gnabgib]

Discussion (319 points, 247 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353

[riehwvfbk → gnabgib]

Has almost 800 upvotes and 600 comments, only 8 hours old, and nowhere to be found on the front page...

[defrost → riehwvfbk]

620 comments now .. it's a chatfest.

The HN ranking eschews chatfest links*, clearly enough people know about it and are diving right in talking backwards and forwards, it's "hot" on the newcomments view:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

and doesn't require "frontpage" pimping (according to the ranking weights chosen) <shrug>

( * there's some downpressure from the Votes Vs Comments ratio, threads with many votes can frontpage despite the baggage of comments )

[yorwba → riehwvfbk]

It was #23 on the front page when you made this comment: https://hnrankings.info/41341353/

[riehwvfbk → yorwba]

This isn't true. I don't know what censorship algorithm they run and what they show to bots vs. users, but if a link isn't there - then it's not there.

[yorwba → riehwvfbk]

It is currently still #28 and hnrankings.info agrees. If you cannot see it there, maybe you accidentally pressed the hide button.