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Probably 1. flagged by a number of Chinese users and 2. auto-detected as “controversial” which often are more noise than signal.

I hope this is manually set as an exception. This is an extremely important topic in the tech world and needs to be discussed.

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Yes, we've manually set this as an exception. The problem is that we can't set every story as exception, or even every important story. So the complaint—"why is X, which is important, off the front page with massive points while Y, which is trivial, is on the front page with pathetic points?"—will ever be with us.

Totally agree with the rule of thumb and deeply appreciate the decision to make an exception in this case.

Could be Apple fans flagging it too, but usually I see negative Google stories get flagged off really fast.

Everyone sees stories they prefer getting flagged really fast and stories they dislike hanging around. This is a mechanical consequence of HN's frontpage space being so limited, combined with the human tendency to pay more attention to negatives.