Tell HN: There's something weird happening with the front page algo

[senko]

As of right now there's several stories on a hot topic, each of which have 15-30 upvotes and several comments, and none of which are on the front page: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump%20anthropic&sort=byPopularity&type=story

Hope dang &co can get a handle on the issue!

[Tossrock]

Probably tripping the politics detector and being auto-deranked.

[senko]

Possibly, but curiously Dario's statement, and other (unrelated) political stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181391 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181944 didn't trip it.

Yet at least 6 of these (counting only those with at least 15 votes) did.

The algorithm works in mysterious ways!

(edit: one did manage, at 55 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186127 )